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• hove
  hove

  verb

  simple past tense and past participle of heave.
• Hove
  Hove

  noun

  a town and coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex. Pop: 72 335 (2001)

hove

American  

[hohv] / hoʊv /

verb

1. simple past tense and past participle of heave.

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Hove ¹ British  

/ həʊv /

noun

1. a town and coastal resort in S England, in Brighton and Hove unitary authority, East Sussex. Pop: 72 335 (2001)

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hove ² British  

/ həʊv /

verb

1. nautical a past tense and past participle of heave

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Example Sentences

“The jury is still out,” said Luc Van den hove, chief executive of the Belgium-based chip research center Imec.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 12, 2016

Just as Farage was explaining the purpose of his demonstration to the assembled media, another vessel hove alongside—to wit, a white pleasure cruiser by the name of Sarpedon.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 23, 2016

The same day, Monroe’s ship hove into sight of the French coast.

From Slate • Aug. 6, 2015

At which point the English hove into view.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2015

Slumber, soft and deep like the still sleep of death, weighed on his eyes as the ship hove seaward.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer