1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Halve

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To divide (something) into two equal portions or parts.

v. To lessen or reduce by half: halved the recipe to serve two.

v. Informal To share (something) equally: The twins halve everything.

v. Sports To play (a golf game or hole) using the same number of strokes as one's opponent.

v. To reduce to half the original amount.

v. To divide into two halves.

v. To make up half of.

v. To join two pieces of timber etc. by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

n. A half.

v. To divide into two equal parts; ; to be or form half of.

v. To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away each for half its thickness at the joining place, and fitting together.

v. Of a hole, match, etc., to reach or play in the same number of strokes as an opponent.

To divide into two parts, especially two equal parts or halves.

To join, as two pieces of timber, by cutting away one half or an equal portion in depth of each, so as to let them into each other.

n. An obsolete variant of half.

v. divide by two; divide into halves

""We both played well and probably, you know, a halve is probably a bad result" for Europe, Brewerton said."

halved halves halving

Words that are more generic or abstract

fraction divide

halved halving

Words with the same meaning

half divide dimidiate bisect

Words with the same terminal sound

have nav

Words that are found in similar contexts

slice