hove
verb
simple past tense and past participle of heave.
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hove
American
[hohv]
/ hoʊv /
verb
Hove
1
British
/ həʊv /
noun
hove
2
British
/ həʊv /
verb
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Racism has been a feature of American history since the first slave ship hove to off Jamestown in 1619.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025
“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
The hulking Mark I, not yet dismantled, still sat in its barnlike home: a corrugated metal building the length of a football field that hove into view while they were still miles away.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
For this milestone year, Brighton and Hove Pride moved to honour early those activists and "remember the courage it took to be visible".
From BBC ● Aug. 3, 2026
She stood down in September 2025 after admitting she underpaid stamp duty on her £800,000 flat in Hove.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
His amateur soccer grit led him to plunder 41 goals in 69 games in Belgium, which earned him a move to Bloom’s flagship club in the English Premier League, Brighton and Hove Albion.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 29, 2026
Paraguay's best players include former Newcastle United forward Miguel Almiron, and diminutive young ball-running midfielder Julio Enciso, who joined French club Strasbourg from Brighton and Hove Albion last summer.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
I belong to the people Hove, and they belong to me—they, and the love and loyalty I give them, form my identity far more than any word or group ever could.
From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth
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