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wove

American  
[wohv] / woʊv /

verb

  1. a simple past tense and past participle of weave.


wove British  
/ wəʊv /

verb

  1. a past tense of weave

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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At a recent performance of his Valiant symphony in Chennai, he explained how he wove Schubert's Unfinished Symphony into Idhayam Pogudhey, a song from the 1979 Tamil film Puthiya Vaarpukkal.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

He even developed a passion for reading: His last show, “Shelf Life,” wove in dozens of book recommendations.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

After just four overs from the quicks, the spinners took centre stage and wove a web around the Sri Lankan batters, much as they had throughout the tour.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

The idea of craft is, to her, “like regarding a vast tapestry and saying, This is how I wove the blue part.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

I gathered some of the tall grasses and wove them into a crude net.

From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo

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