wolve

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wolve

  • /wʊlv/

Rhymes with -ʊlv

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From inflected stem of wolf.

verb wolves · wolving · wolved

  1. intransitive To behave like a wolf.
  2. intransitive Of an organ, to make a hollow whining sound like that of a wolf. he had returned to his schoolboy's script, to distant Evensongs, to the wolving of the ancient chapel organ as the last light is extinguished and the door latched for the long night.
  3. rare, transitive Rare form of wolf (“to devour; to gobble; to eat (something) voraciously”). He then went to the Crown and Anchor public-house, in the same street, and had two pints of ale, and bread and cheese, the latter of which he “wolved” in a way that “out dando’d Dando.”

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@misc{wolve_2026,
  title = {wolve},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/wolve},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}