Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to rove
Participle: roved
Gerund: roving
Indicative
Present
| I | rove |
| you | rove |
| he;she;it | roves |
| we | rove |
| you | rove |
| they | rove |
Perfect
| I | have roved |
| you | have roved |
| he;she;it | has roved |
| we | have roved |
| you | have roved |
| they | have roved |
Past
| I | roved |
| you | roved |
| he;she;it | roved |
| we | roved |
| you | roved |
| they | roved |
Pluperfect
| I | had roved |
| you | had roved |
| he;she;it | had roved |
| we | had roved |
| you | had roved |
| they | had roved |
Future
| I | will rove |
| you | will rove |
| he;she;it | will rove |
| we | will rove |
| you | will rove |
| they | will rove |
Future Perfect
| I | will have roved |
| you | will have roved |
| he;she;it | will have roved |
| we | will have roved |
| you | will have roved |
| they | will have roved |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | rove |
| you | rove |
| he;she;it | rove |
| we | rove |
| you | rove |
| they | rove |
Perfect
| I | have roved |
| you | have roved |
| he;she;it | have roved |
| we | have roved |
| you | have roved |
| they | have roved |
Imperfect
| I | roved |
| you | roved |
| he;she;it | roved |
| we | roved |
| you | roved |
| they | roved |
Pluperfect
| I | had roved |
| you | had roved |
| he;she;it | had roved |
| we | had roved |
| you | had roved |
| they | had roved |
Conditional
Present
| I | would rove |
| you | would rove |
| he;she;it | would rove |
| we | would rove |
| you | would rove |
| they | would rove |
Perfect
| I | would have roved |
| you | would have roved |
| he;she;it | would have roved |
| we | would have roved |
| you | would have roved |
| they | would have roved |
Imperative
| you | rove |
| we | Let's rove |
| you | rove |
Verbs conjugated like 'rove'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'rove'
cove,
drove,
gove,
grove,
hove,
love,
move,
prove,
rave,
reve,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. "to wander with no fixed destination," 1536, possibly a Midlands dialectal variant of northern Eng. and Scottish
rave "to wander, stray," from M.E.
raven, probably from O.N.
rafa "to wander, rove." Infl. by
rover (q.v.). Earliest sense was "to shoot arrows at a mark selected at pleasure or at random" (1474).
2. Probably from Middle English *roven, a Midlands variant of Northern Middle English raven (“to wander”), from Old Norse ráfa (“to rove; stray about”). Cognate with Icelandic ráfa (“to wander”), Scots rave (“to wander; stray; roam”). See: Icelandic '
ráfa'.
Sample Sentences
-
And thou […] that with thy cruell dart / At that good knight so cunningly didst roue […] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
-
Now that he was in his prime, there was no simian in all the mighty forest through which he roved that dared contest his right to rule, nor did the other and larger animals molest him. [1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC; republished as chapter 1, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, June 1914, →OCLC:]
-
And a rovin’, a rovin’, a rovin’ I'll go / For a pair of brown eyes [1985, Shane MacGowan, “A Pair of Brown Eyes”, in Rum Sodomy & the Lash, performed by The Pogues:]
-
Roving the field, I chanced / A goodly tree far distant to behold. [1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
-
The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England. [1832, Charles Lyell, chapter VI, in Principles of Geology: Being an Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes Now in Operation, volume II, London: John Murray, →OCLC, page 94:]
-
Although both [flax and wool] must be roved and spun upon similar principles, each requires peculiar modifications in its machinery. [1835, Andrew Ure, The Philosophy of Manufacturers:]
-
pirates, roving up and downe the sea [1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:]