schoven

To shove; to move (often forcibly) by direct physical force:
1. To shove to the ground; to knock down or over.
2. To stab or impale; to move a weapon into something.
3. To shove and throw into something.
To force from something; to remove forcibly or unwillingly:
To move weather or atmospheric conditions.
To enter or go somewhere (often when facing resistance)
(rare) To decline or refuse to accept (or continue accepting).
(rare) To resist shoving or pushing.
(rare) To promote or improve one's standings.
(rare) To crawl or mill about as a crowd.
(rare) To secure or reinforce.

This verb tends to become weak in later Middle English.

Conjugation of schoven (strong class 2 or weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) schoven, schove
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	schove	schef, schof, schoved
2nd-person singular	schovest	schove, schef, schof, schovedest
3rd-person singular	schoveth	schef, schof, schoved
subjunctive singular	schove	schove¹, schoved¹
imperative singular	schove	—

plural²	schoven, schove	schoven, schove, schoveden, schovede
imperative plural	schoveth, schove	—

participles	schovynge, schovende	schoven, schove, schoved, yschoven, yschove, yschoved

¹Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
²Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

“shǒuven, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-22.

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