5 Letter Words Ending in VE

grave

Noun : (strictly) An excavation in the earth as a place of burial.

Noun : (loosely) Any place of interment; a tomb; a sepulcher.

Noun : (very loosely) Any place containing one or more corpses.

naive

Adjective : Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.

Adjective : Not having been exposed to something.

Adjective : (of art) Produced in a simple, childlike style, deliberately rejecting sophisticated techniques.

heave

Verb : (transitive) To lift with difficulty; to raise with some effort; to lift (a heavy thing).

Verb : (transitive) To throw, cast.

Verb : (intransitive) To rise and fall.

suave

Adjective : (of a person) Charming though often in a manner that is insincere or sophisticated.

Adjective : Displaying smoothness and sophistication.

Adjective : Gracious, kind.

drive

Verb : To operate a vehicle:

Verb : (transitive, ergative) To operate (a wheeled motorized vehicle).

Verb : (intransitive) To travel by operating a wheeled motorized vehicle.

delve

Verb : (intransitive) To dig into the ground, especially with a shovel.

Verb : (ambitransitive) To search thoroughly and carefully for information, research, dig into, penetrate, fathom, trace out

Verb : (ambitransitive) To dig; to excavate.

grove

Noun : A small forest.

Noun : A small forest with minimal undergrowth.

Noun : An orchard of fruit trees.

mauve

Noun : (historical) A rich purple synthetic dye, which faded easily, briefly popular c. 1859‒1873 and now called mauveine.

Noun : A pale purple or violet colour, like the colour of the dye after it has faded.

Adjective : Having a pale purple colour.

salve

Noun : An ointment, cream, or balm with soothing, healing, or calming effects.

Noun : Any remedy or action that soothes or heals.

Verb : (transitive) To calm or assuage.

waive

Verb : (transitive, law) To relinquish (a right etc.); to give up claim to; to forgo.

Verb : (particularly) To relinquish claim on a payment or fee which would otherwise be due.

Verb : (now rare) To put aside, avoid.

crave

Verb : (ambitransitive) To desire strongly, so as to satisfy an appetite; to long or yearn for.

Verb : (transitive, archaic or literary) To ask for earnestly; to beg or demand, as from a figure of authority.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To call for; to require as a course of action.

stave

Noun : One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc.

Noun : One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

Noun : (poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

brave

Adjective : Strong in the face of fear; courageous.

Adjective : (obsolete) Having any sort of superiority or excellence.

Adjective : Making a fine show or display.

verve

Noun : Enthusiasm, rapture, spirit, or vigour, especially of imagination such as that which animates an artist, musician, or writer, in composing or performing.

Noun : (obsolete) A particular skill in writing.

knave

Noun : (archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.

Noun : (archaic) Any male servant; a menial.

Noun : (dated) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.

curve

Adjective : (obsolete) Bent without angles; crooked; curved.

Noun : A gentle bend, such as in a road.

Noun : A simple figure containing no straight portions and no angles; a curved line.

prove

Verb : (transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.

Verb : (intransitive) To turn out; to manifest.

Verb : (copulative) To turn out to be.

sieve

Noun : A device with a mesh, grate, or otherwise perforated bottom to separate, in a granular material, larger particles from smaller ones, or to separate solid objects from a liquid.

Noun : A process, physical or abstract, that arrives at a final result by filtering out unwanted pieces of input from a larger starting set of input.

Noun : (obsolete) A kind of coarse basket.

shove

Verb : (transitive) To push, especially roughly or with force.

Verb : (intransitive) To move off or along by an act of pushing, as with an oar or pole used in a boat; sometimes with off.

Verb : (poker, by ellipsis) To make an all-in bet.

serve

Noun : (sports) An act of putting the ball or shuttlecock in play in various games.

Noun : (chiefly Australia) A portion of food or drink, a serving.

Noun : (gay slang and African-American Vernacular) An impressive presentation (especially of a person's appearance).

reave

Verb : (archaic) To plunder, pillage, rob, pirate, or remove.

Verb : (archaic) To deprive (a person) of something through theft or violence.

Verb : (archaic) To split, tear, break apart.

nerve

Noun : A bundle of neurons with their connective tissue sheaths, blood vessels and lymphatics.

Noun : (nonstandard, colloquial) A neuron.

Noun : (botany) A vein in a leaf; a grain in wood.

weave

Verb : (transitive) To form something by passing lengths or strands of material over and under one another.

Verb : (transitive) To spin a cocoon or a web.

Verb : (transitive) To unite by close connection or intermixture.

drove

Noun : A cattle drive or the herd being driven by it; thus, a number of cattle driven to market or new pastures.

Noun : (figuratively, by extension, usually in the plural) A large number of people on the move.

Noun : (collective) A group of hares.

lurve

Noun : (informal) Love, fondness.

Verb : (informal) To love; to like a lot.

trove

Noun : A treasure trove; a collection of treasure.

Noun : A collection of things.

alive

Adjective : Having life; living; not dead.

Adjective : In a state of action; in force or operation; existent.

Adjective : Busy with activity of many living beings; swarming; thronged; busy.

naïve

Adjective : Alternative spelling of naive. [Lacking worldly experience, wisdom, or judgement; unsophisticated.]

Noun : Alternative spelling of naive. [A naive person; a greenhorn.]

reeve

Noun : (historical) Any of several local officials, with varying responsibilities.

Noun : (Canada) The president of a township or municipal district council.

Noun : (military, historical) The holder of a proposed but unadopted commissioned rank of the Royal Air Force, equivalent to wing commander.

slave

Noun : A person who is held in servitude as the property of another person, and whose labor (and often also whose body and life) is subject to the owner's volition and control.

Noun : (figuratively) A drudge; one who labors or is obliged (e.g. by prior contract) to labor like a slave with limited rights, e.g. an indentured servant.

Noun : (figuratively) An abject person.

cleve

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) A room; chamber.

Noun : (now chiefly dialectal) A cottage.

Noun : (obsolete) A cliff or hillside.

solve

Verb : To find an answer or solution to a problem or question; to work out.

Verb : to find out the perpetrator, the motive etc (of crime)

Verb : (mathematics) To find the values of variables that satisfy a system of equations and/or inequalities.

skive

Verb : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) To avoid one's lessons or work (chiefly at school or university); shirk.

Noun : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) Something very easy, where one can slack off without penalty.

Noun : (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, informal) An act of avoiding lessons or work.

above

Verb : Directly overhead; vertically on top of.

Verb : Higher in the same page; earlier in the order as far as writing products go.

Verb : Into or from heaven; in the sky.

clove

Noun : (uncountable, countable) A very pungent aromatic spice, the unexpanded flower bud of the clove tree.

Noun : (countable) A clove tree, of the species Syzygium aromaticum (syn. Caryophyllus aromaticus), native to the Moluccas (Indonesian islands), which produces the spice.

Noun : (countable) An old English measure of weight, containing 7 pounds (3.2 kg), i.e. half a stone.

calve

Verb : (intransitive) To give birth to a calf.

Verb : (intransitive) To assist in a cow’s giving birth to a calf.

Verb : (transitive) To give birth to (a calf).

quave

Verb : (intransitive, obsolete) To quiver or tremble.

Noun : A shaking; trembling.

Noun : A surname from Spanish.

loave

Noun : Alternative form of lofe [(West Midlands and Northern England) An offer; choice; an opportunity; chance.]

Verb : Alternative form of lofe [(transitive, UK dialectal or obsolete) To praise; commend.]

terve

valve

Noun : A device that controls the flow of a gas or fluid through a pipe.

Noun : A device that admits fuel and air into the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, or one that allows combustion gases to exit.

Noun : (anatomy) One or more membranous partitions, flaps, or folds, which permit the passage of the contents of a vessel or cavity in one direction, but stop or control the flow in the opposite direction

leave

Verb : To have a consequence or remnant.

Verb : (transitive) To cause or allow (something) to remain as available; to refrain from taking (something) away; to stop short of consuming or otherwise depleting (something) entirely.

Verb : (transitive or intransitive, copulative) To cause, to result in.

shave

Verb : (transitive) To make (the head, skin etc.) bald or (the hair) shorter by using a tool such as a razor or electric clippers to cut the hair close to the skin.

Verb : (transitive) To cut anything in this fashion.

Verb : (intransitive) To remove hair from one's face by this means.

carve

Verb : (archaic) To cut.

Verb : To cut meat in order to serve it.

Verb : To shape to sculptural effect; to produce (a work) by cutting, or to cut (a material) into a finished work, especially with cuts that are curved rather than only straight slices.

dreve

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To trouble; afflict; make anxious.

olive

Noun : A tree of species Olea europaea cultivated since ancient times in the Mediterranean for its fruit and the oil obtained from it.

Noun : The small oval fruit of this tree, eaten ripe (usually black) or unripe (usually green).

Noun : The wood of the olive tree.

glove

Noun : (clothing) An item of clothing, covering all or part of the hand and fingers, but usually allowing independent movement of the fingers.

Noun : A baseball mitt.

Noun : (baseball, figuratively) The ability to catch a hit ball.

stove

Noun : A heater, a closed apparatus to burn fuel for the warming of a room.

Noun : A device for heating food, (UK) a cooker.

Noun : A stovetop, with hotplates.

helve

Noun : The handle or haft of a tool or weapon.

Noun : A forge hammer lifted by a cam acting on the helve between the fulcrum and the head.

Verb : (transitive) To furnish (an axe, etc.) with a helve.

shive

Noun : A slice, especially of bread.

Noun : (obsolete) A sheave.

Noun : A beam or plank of split wood.

swive

Verb : (archaic, transitive) To copulate with (a woman).

Verb : (archaic, transitive, dialectal) To cut a crop in a sweeping or rambling manner, hence to reap; cut for harvest.

keeve

Noun : (bleaching) A bleaching vat; a kier.

Noun : (brewing) A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub.

Noun : (mining) A large vat used in dressing ores.

slive

Verb : (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cut; split; separate.

Verb : (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.

Noun : (dialectal) A slice or sliver; slip, chip.

stive

Noun : The floating dust in a flour mill caused by the operation of grinding.

Verb : (UK, dialect, transitive, intransitive) To stew; to be stifled or suffocated.

Verb : (transitive) Sometimes with up: to compress (something); to cram.

blive

Verb : (obsolete) quickly; forthwith

Verb : (intransitive) Alternative form of belive ("to remain"). [(intransitive, dialectal, otherwise obsolete) To remain, stay.]

sarve

Verb : Obsolete spelling of serve. [(personal) To provide a service (or, by extension, a product, especially food or drink).]

breve

Noun : (orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.

Noun : (music) A double whole note; a note twice as long as a semibreve.

Noun : (law) Any writ or precept under seal, issued out of any court.

ogive

Noun : (statistics) The curve of a cumulative distribution function.

Noun : (architecture) A Gothic pointed arch, or a rib of a Gothic vault.

Noun : (weaponry, ballistics) The pointed, curved nose of a bullet, missile, or rocket.

trave

Noun : (architecture) A crossbeam.

Noun : (architecture) A section formed by crossbeams.

Noun : A wooden frame to confine unruly horses while they are shod.

clive

Noun : A topographic surname from Old English - someone who lived near a cliff (Old English clif).

Noun : A male given name transferred from the surname, popular in Britain in the mid-twentieth century.

Noun : A village in Alberta.

steve

Noun : A diminutive of the male given name Steven and Stephen; also used as a formal male given name.

Noun : A diminutive of the female given name Stephanie.

Verb : To pack or stow, as cargo in a ship's hold.

glave

Noun : Alternative form of glaive [(obsolete, historical) A light lance with a long, sharp-pointed head.]

nieve

Noun : the fist or han

naeve

Noun : (obsolete) Alternative spelling of naevus (“pigmented spot”). [(anatomy) A pigmented, raised or otherwise abnormal area on the skin, whether congenital or acquired.]

preve

Verb : (obsolete) Alternative form of prove [(transitive) To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.]

volve

Verb : (transitive, obsolete) To turn over in the mind; to ponder.

peeve

Noun : (colloquial) An annoyance or grievance.

Verb : (colloquial) To annoy; vex.

poove

Noun : (slang, derogatory, rare) Synonym of poof (“male homosexual”)

amove

Verb : (obsolete) To set in motion; to stir up, excite.

Verb : (obsolete) To remove.

Verb : (law, archaic or historical) To dismiss from an office or station.

adive

Noun : The golden jackal; a smaller sort of jackal, sometimes domesticated.

swave

agave

Noun : Any plant in the large, variable genus Agave: succulent plants, commonly armed with formidable prickles; they flower at maturity after several years, and generally die thereafter; large species, such as the maguey or century plant, (Agave americana), produce gigantic inflorescences. Several are of economic importance as sources of fibre such as sisal, and alcoholic beverages such as tequila.

halve

Verb : (transitive) To reduce to half the original amount.

Verb : (transitive) To divide into two halves.

Verb : (transitive) To make up half of.

chive

Noun : A perennial plant, Allium schoenoprasum, related to the onion.

Noun : (in the plural or attributive) The leaves of this plant used as a herb.

Noun : (obsolete) The style and stigma of a flower, especially saffron.

drave

Noun : Alternative spelling of Drava [A tributary of the Danube, in southern Central Europe.]

larve

Noun : Dated form of larva. [An early stage of growth for some insects and amphibians, in which after hatching from their egg, insects are wingless and resemble a caterpillar or grub, and amphibians lack limbs and resemble fish.]

aleve

Noun : a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trademarks aleve and anaprox and aflaxen

corve

Noun : Alternative form of corf [(mining) A large basket, especially as used for coal.]

emove

Verb : (archaic, poetic, transitive) To stir or arouse emotion in (someone); to cause to feel emotion.

kerve

Verb : Obsolete form of carve. [(archaic) To cut.]

u wave

Noun : a wave on an electrocardiogram.

eleve

Noun : (obsolete) A pupil or student.

farve

Noun : A surname from French.

herve

Noun : A Belgian cheese similar to Limburger.

scove

Noun : (UK, dialect, Cornwall, mining) Rich, pure tin ore.

Verb : (transitive) To cover with clay so as to prevent the escape of heat in burning.

maeve

Noun : A female given name from Irish of mostly Irish usage.

beave

Noun : (chiefly Canada, US, slang) Alternative form of beav [(chiefly Canada, US, slang) The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself.]

a wave

Noun : (medicine, cardiology) A wave on an electrocardiogram representing the upward deflection in the right atrial pressure occurring during right atrial contraction.

eaeve

chave

cmave

ctave

cwave

mikve

Noun : Alternative spelling of mikveh [(Judaism) A ritual bath in which various Jewish purifications are performed.]

neuve

sheve

roave

Verb : Archaic spelling of rove. [(obsolete, intransitive) To shoot with arrows (at).]

soave

Noun : A commune of Veneto, Italy.

Noun : A dry white wine made in that region from grape varieties that include the Garganega.

Noun : A surname from Italian.

varve

Noun : (geology) An annual layer of sediment or sedimentary rock.

p wave

Noun : (medicine, cardiology) A wave on an electrocardiogram that represents the electrical changes generated by the depolarization of the atria.

Noun : Alternative form of P-wave. [(geology, seismology) A longitudinal compressional wave produced by an earthquake.]

s wave

Noun : Alternative form of S-wave [(geology, seismology) A transverse, shear wave, such as that produced by an earthquake. Movement is transverse to the direction of propagation and is a body wave.]

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