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A device for cooking or heating food
“You can cook the pie on the stove and finish it under the grill.”
A heater or other apparatus used to provide warmth to a room
“A blackened heap of rust and iron, the old stove sat in the corner of the living room.”
An open hearth for holding a fire at the base of a chimney
A portable outdoor fireplace or stove resembling a chimney
Past tense for to avert or delay something undesirable
“Most interestingly, counterrevolutionary regimes may undertake pre-emptive reforms in an attempt to stave off the possibility of revolution.”
Past tense for to break something by forcing it inwards or piercing it roughly
“Open now, or I'll stave in the door.”
Past tense for to collapse inward or downward
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