schoven

Dutch

schoven

schoven

inflection of schuiven:
1. plural past indicative
2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

From Old English sċūfan, sċēofan (the latter is the ancestor of the variant scheven) from Proto-Germanic *skeubaną, *skūbaną.

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)
	present tense	past tense
infinitive	(to) schoven, schove

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

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

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