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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

enamber en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + amber.

Meanings

  1. (transitive) To preserve in, or as if in, amber.
    • Nor is it to place Johnson within that still more famous and tragic generation of Rhymers' Club poets which Yeats was so sumptuously to enamber in literary myth. 2014, Linda C. Dowling, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford, page 135:

Forms

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enambering Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
enambers Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
enambered Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
enambered Tense=Past lexicographic