stove

//stoʊv//
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Noun

stoveSingular
stovesPlural
1

An appliance used for cooking food or heating a room, typically using gas, electricity, wood, or coal as fuel

She cooked dinner on the stove.

2

A kitchen appliance with burners or hotplates on top and often an oven below, used for preparing meals

She cooked dinner on the stove.

3

A heating apparatus, especially one that burns wood or coal to warm a space

We gathered around the wood stove to keep warm.

Verb

1

Past tense and past participle of 'stave' (to break or crush inward; to ward off)

The barrel was stove in during the storm.