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calve

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Verb (usu participle)

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb calve has 2 senses

calve(v = verb.contact) break up - release ice; "The icebergs and glaciers calve"

is one way to divide, part, separate

Sample sentence:
Something ----s

calve(v = verb.body) have young - birth; "the whales calve at this time of year"

is one way to bear, birth, deliver, give birth, have

Sample sentence:
Something ----s

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CIDE DICTIONARY

calve, v. i. [AS. cealfian. See Calf.].

To bring forth a calf. Job xxi. 10. [1913 Webster]
To bring forth young; to produce offspring. [1913 Webster]
"Canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?" [1913 Webster]

"The grassy clods now calved." [1913 Webster]
To throw off fragments which become icebergs; -- said of a glacier. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

calve, v.
1 a intr. give birth to a calf. b tr. (esp. in passive) give birth to (a calf).
2 tr. (also absol.) (of an iceberg) break off or shed (a mass of ice).

Etymology

OE calfian

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