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Definition of "shrove" [shrove]

  • A past tense of shrive. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "shrove" in a sentence
  • "Tomorrow being Ash Wednesday and the first day of Lent in the Latin rite, this is Shrove Tuesday -- "shrove" as in "shriven"."
  • "Nebber mind, I not eat stack of cats – i can has shrove toosday stak of pancakes insted!"
  • "I can has maple sirip 4 shrove toosday to eat stack of cats?"
Words like "shrove"
shrive
Shrove Monday
Shrove Sunday
shrove tuesday
shrovetide