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Verb: calve  kãv
  1. Release ice
    "The icebergs and glaciers calve"
    - break up
     
  2. Birth
    "the whales calve at this time of year"
    - have young

Derived forms: calved, calving

Type of: bear, birth, deliver, divide, give birth, have, part, separate

Nearest

calumniously
calumny
Calvados
calvaria
Calvary
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Calvary clover
Calvary cross
Calvatia
Calvatia gigantea
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Calvert Vaux
calves' feet
calves' liver
Calvin
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Klein
Calvin Richard Klein
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Calvinism
Calvinist