ENROBE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enrobe mean? 

• ENROBE (verb)
  The verb ENROBE has 2 senses:

1. provide with a coating

2. adorn with a robe

  Familiarity information: ENROBE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENROBE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enrobe    ... he / she / it enrobes   
Past simple: enrobed   
Past participle: enrobed   
-ing form: enrobing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Provide with a coating

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

enrobe the nuts with chocolate

Hypernyms (to "enrobe" is one way to...):

coat; surface (put a coat on; cover the surface of; furnish with a surface)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Adorn with a robe

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "enrobe" is one way to...):

attire; deck out; deck up; dress up; fancy up; fig out; fig up; get up; gussy up; overdress; prink; rig out; tog out; tog up; trick out; trick up (put on special clothes to appear particularly appealing and attractive)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

When I had bathed, they (I mean my aunt and Janet) enrobed me in a shirt and a pair of trousers belonging to Mr. Dick, and tied me up in two or three great shawls.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)