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engroove en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + groove.

Meanings

1. To fit into a groove; to channel
   • I would like sometimes to rest, to be at peace, to choose a nook, a love, and engroove myself in it — to make a final selection. 1992, Anaïs Nin, Incest: From a Journal of Love, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 25:
   • The box i is engrooved into the edge of the stock a b, so that it may move freely ... 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Digitized edition, J. Brown, published 2010, page 668:
   • The boy had forgotten that the moor just here was broken by a narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water. 1880, RD Blackmore, Mary Anerley, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:

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