Meaning

5 senses
  1. (transitive)To collect (bees) into a hive.

    to hive a swarm of bees

    gather into a hive

  2. (transitive)To store (something other than bees) in, or as if in, a hive.

    store, like bees

  3. (intransitive)To form a hive-like entity.

    move together in a hive or as if in a hive

  4. (intransitive)To take lodging or shelter together; to reside in a collective body.

    1725, Alexander Pope, letter to Martha Blount […] to get into warmer houses, and hive together in cities

  5. Of insects: to enter or possess a hive.

Examples

54 sentences
  1. I have hives.

    У мене є вулики. — deniko

    ruУ меня крапивница. — corvard

    deIch habe Nesselsucht. — al_ex_an_der

  2. What kind of medications cause hives?

  3. That may be what's causing your hives.

  4. Tom keeps hives on his farm and sells the honey.

  5. I get hives when I eat eggs.

    deIch bekomme Nesselausschlag, wenn ich Eier esse. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Origin

From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto

From Middle English hyve, from Old English hȳf, from Proto-West Germanic *hūfi, from Proto-Indo-European *kuHp- (“water vessel”), from *kew- (“to bend, curve”).

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Forms

hives, hiving, hived, hived
Base formhive · to hive
3rd person singularhives
Present participlehiving
Past simplehived
Past participlehived

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyhive
he, she, ithives

Past simpleLesson

all personshived

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave hived
he, she, ithas hived

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill hive

Phrasal verbs

2 phrasal verbs

Word family

1 related words
Derivedhive off

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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