weave
Base form
weave
/wiːv/
Past simple
wovewove / weaved
/wəʊv//wəʊv/ /wiːvd/
Past participle
wovenwoven / weaved
/ˈwəʊvn//ˈwəʊvn/ /wiːvd/
MeaningC1
to make cloth or a basket by crossing threads or strips over and under each other
to weave a basket
In use
- Question · Form 1Can you weave a basket out of willow?
- Imperative · Form 1Weave the red thread in and out of the blue ones.
- Past simple · Form 2Last winter my grandmother wove a rug for our hall.
- Past simple · Form 2In the Middle Ages, families wove their own cloth at home.
- Passive · Form 3This carpet was woven by hand in Iran.
- Present perfect · Form 3Spiders have woven webs all over the garage.
Watch out
Wove, woven, like stole, stolen: a hand-woven rug. Weaved is for moving in and out of traffic, and in the US also for cloth. Weaven and woved are wrong.
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A — B — CAll three forms differ
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