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Definition: STAVED |
STAVEDImperative & past participle1. Of Stave |
Date "STAVED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1719. (references) |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | One free radical scavenger, vitamin E, is now used therapeutically as it staved off progression to certain important endpoints in AD patients by 6 months in an NIA-funded clinical trial. (references) | |
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| "STAVED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 65.00% of the time. "STAVED" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 65% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 35% | 7 | 133,076 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
rock staved | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STAVED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
German | zusammenschlagen (beat up, clap, clash, click, do over, fold up, knock together, rough up, smash, smash up, to smash, work over, wreck). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | avedstay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"STAVED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: estave, Istavan, scaved, scavved, stabed, staft, staive, staived, staned, stava, staver, stawed, steave, Tsavo. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "STAVED" (pronounced stā"vd) |
| 3 | -ā" v d | behaved, braved, caved, craved, depraved, engraved, enslaved, misbehaved, paved, raved, saved, shaved, waived, waved. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: dates, devas, sated, saved, stade, stave, stead, tsade, vesta. | |
-2 letters: ates, aves, date, deva, devs, east, eats, etas, sade, sate, save, seat, seta, tads, tavs, teas, teds, vase, vast, vats, vest, vets. | |
-3 letters: ads, ate, ave, dev, eat, eds, eta, sad, sae, sat, sea, set, tad, tae, tas, tav, tea, ted, vas, vat. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: advects, advents, adverts, datives, starved, vistaed. | |
+2 letters: deviants, deviates, distaves, sedative, solvated. | |
+3 letters: additives, adjustive, adversity, advertise, advocates, auditives, avidities, derivates, devastate, deviators, divagates, donatives, dovetails, duratives, elevateds, estivated, harvested, salivated, sedatives, stravaged, traversed, validates, vanadates, vastitude, vaticides, vendettas, vesicated, viewdatas, vitalised. | |
+4 letters: adjectives, adsorptive, advantages, advections, adventives, adventures, advertised, advertiser, advertises, advertizes, advisement, aestivated, davenports, denervates, devaluates, devastated, devastates, devastator, deviations, driveshaft, outsavored, ovaritides, overcasted, overdrafts, oversalted, overstated, overstayed, overtasked, overtrades, passivated, privatised, stravaiged, travestied, validities, vapidities, vastitudes, videotapes, vindicates. | |
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