oven-like

A form of ovenlike — Resembling an oven, especially in shape

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Meanings

adjectiveoven-like (comparative more oven-like, superlative most oven-like)

comparative more oven-like · superlative most oven-like

  1. alternativeAlternative form of ovenlike.

    Nor had the post mortem on Newson's body revealed any illness or other physical condition that might have prevented him from applying the brake, although after four days in the oven-like heat of the wreckage, the body was so badly decomposed as to make any reliable post mortem results unlikely.

    2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 59, about the Moorgate tube crash

Origin

From oven + -like.

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APA

oven-like. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oven-like

MLA

“oven-like.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oven-like. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “oven-like,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/oven-like.

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