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Definition: STIVE |
STIVEIntransitive verb1. To be stifled or suffocated. Noun1. The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding. Transitive verb1. To stuff; to crowd; to fill full; hence, to make hot and close; to render stifling. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Calefaction | Verb: heat, warm, chafe, stive, foment; make hot; sun oneself, sunbathe. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: STIVE |
| English words defined with "STIVE": Stived, Stiving. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "STIVE": stevedore. (references) |
Expression using "STIVE": use the stive. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; 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 |
stive wonder | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "STIVE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Russian | топить печь (use the stive). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "STIVE": stiver, stivers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "STIVE": adjustive, combustive, congestive, contrastive, costive, decongestive, digestive, egestive, exhaustive, festive, ingestive, maladjustive, resistive, restive, suggestive. (additional references) | |
Words containing "STIVE": contrastively, costively, costiveness, costivenesses, digestively, digestives, exhaustively, exhaustiveness, exhaustivenesses, festively, festiveness, festivenesses, resistively, resistiveness, resistivenesses, restively, restiveness, restivenesses, suggestively, suggestiveness, suggestivenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-s-t-v" | |
-1 letter: site, ties, vest, vets, vies, vise. | |
-2 letters: its, sei, set, sit, tie, tis, vet, vie, vis. | |
-3 letters: es, et, is, it, si, ti. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-s-t-v" | |
+1 letter: civets, divest, evicts, evites, invest, livest, rivets, soviet, stiver, strive, swivet, verist, vilest. | |
+2 letters: actives, aviates, blivets, costive, datives, diverts, divests, estival, evilest, festive, grivets, invents, inverts, invests, invites, jiviest, lievest, motives, naivest, natives, outvies, privets, restive, revisit, revuist, soviets, spaviet, stative, stivers, strived, striven, striver, strives, stuiver, swivets, sylvite, tensive, thieves, thrives, trivets, tussive, uveitis, vainest, vastier, velites, veriest, verists, veritas, verites, vestige, vesting, viniest, violets, virtues, visited, visiter, vistaed, vitesse, vittles, waviest. | |
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