Was your fender "stove-in" after your car was hit by that truck?

I'd say it was "stoved in", but then I'm English


The OED shows the verb stave as having a frequently nautical application, describing the breaching of a vessel’s timbers. It gives the past tense and past participle as staved, but records that stove was used in nautical contexts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The derived adjective, stove (-in) is a remnant of the earlier verbal form, in support of which the OED has this twentieth century citation: 'A stove-in radiator with rusty water blowing out of it.'