Crossword-Solution: ROVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Rove | imp. & p. p. | of Reeve |
| Rove | v. t. | To draw through an eye or aperture. |
| Rove | v. t. | To draw out into flakes; to card, as wool. |
| Rove | v. t. | To twist slightly; to bring together, as slivers of wool or cotton, and twist slightly before spinning. |
| Rove | n. | A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building. |
| Rove | n. | A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slighty twisted, preparatory to further process; a roving. |
| Rove | v. i. | To practice robbery on the seas; to wander about on the seas in piracy. |
| Rove | v. i. | Hence, to wander; to ramble; to rauge; to go, move, or pass without certain direction in any manner, by sailing, walking, riding, flying, or otherwise. |
| Rove | v. i. | To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range). |
| Rove | v. t. | To wander over or through. |
| Rove | v. t. | To plow into ridges by turning the earth of two furrows together. |
| Rove | n. | The act of wandering; a ramble. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ROVE | anagram | EVOR, OVER, REVO, ROEV, VERO, VORE |
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Sentences with ROVE (5)
The pore feller were faithful and true enough to her in his wish, but his heart would rove, do what he would.
About the walled city the red man saw a huge encampment of the green warriors of the dead sea-bottoms, and as he let his eyes rove carefully over the city he realized that here was no deserted metropolis of a dead past.
They range the field and they rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.
Here sleeps the sun long, idle summer hours; Here butterflies and bees fare far to rove Amid the crumpled leaves of poppy flowers; Here four o'clocks, to the passionate night above Fling whiffs of perfume, like pale incense showers.
Romantic Wyoming! could none be found Of all that rove thy Eden groves among, To wake a native harp's untutored sound, And give thy tale of wo the voice of song? Oh! if description's cold and nerveless tongue From stranger harps such hallowed strains could call, How doubly sweet the descant wild had rung, From one who, lingering round thy ruined wall, Had plucked thy mourning flowers and wept thy timeless fall.
Quotes with ROVE (3)
There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb the mountain's crest; Their's is the curse of the gypsy blood, And they don't know how to rest.
This is why I stayed away," he growled against my mouth as his hands started to rove over me with knowing, ruthless passion. "Can't be near you without wanting you. Can't stop myself anymore--
I wanted to climb to the summit of challenges, attack my way through hardships as solid as granite, tempt all sorts of peril, and break through mysteries with science. I longed to inhale all sorts of experience and then explore the labyrinthine ins and outs of life that in the end cannot be guessed. I yearned for possibilities that react with each other, like the collision of uranium molecules: binding, multiplying, bursting, and dispersing in unexpected directions. I wanted …
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Appears in: AARP, Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 504 times in crossword archives (1948–2025).