Usually means: Confess sins before Lent begins.
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  1. shrove: Merriam-Webster
  2. shrove: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shrove: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shrove: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shrove: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shrove, shrove: Wordnik
  7. shrove: Wiktionary
  8. shrove: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. shrove: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. shrove: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shrove: Dictionary.com
  12. shrove: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Shrove: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. shrove: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. Shrove: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. shrove: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. shrove: FreeDictionary.org
  18. shrove: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrove: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shrove: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shrove)

verb:  (obsolete) To join in the festivities of Shrovetide.
verb:  (obsolete, by extension) To make merry.

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