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EMBOWER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does embower mean?
• EMBOWER (verb)
The verb EMBOWER has 1 sense:
1. enclose in a bower
Familiarity information: EMBOWER used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it embowers Past simple: embowered
Past participle: embowered
-ing form: embowering
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enclose in a bower
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
bower; embower
Hypernyms (to "embower" is one way to...):
close in; enclose; inclose; shut in (surround completely)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
The wind roared high in the great trees which embowered the gates; but the road as far as I could see, to the right hand and the left, was all still and solitary: save for the shadows of clouds crossing it at intervals as the moon looked out, it was but a long pale line, unvaried by one moving speck.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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