ambass
ambass verb: to engage in the professional work of an ambassador.
Verb
ambass (third-person singular simple present ambasses, present participle ambassing, simple past and past participle ambassed)
- To engage in the professional work of an ambassador.
- How fruitless attempts to involve us in war With HIM to AMBASS and with HER to ADOR.1913, John Kendrick Bangs, "To Marse Tom and Meh Lady", The Bookman, Volume XXXVIII, page 114
- The home of an American Ambassador should express America not the country to which he is sent to Ambass.1917, John Kendrick Bangs, Half hours with the Idiot, Little, Brown, and Company, page 4
Examples of ambass in a sentence
- Politics, graft, war, sport and scandal are aired in turn, but the "ambassador" fails to ambass — the "worker" fails to work — the "messenger" makes a mess of it.1914,, Association men, Volume 39, YMCA of the USA, page 361
- ... cut off from their governments and obliged to rely on their own wisdom, knowledge and experience, when they had, in a word, to ambass.1961, Ilka Chase, The Carthaginian rose, Doubleday, page 51:
- I have always maintained there was something wrong with Ambassadors, as none of them seemed to ambass properly.1995, Will Rogers, Will Rogers speaks, →ISBN, page 21:
- "Therefore," said Kirk, […] "Shipping her back in box is not one of the options, […] this will require the skills of an Ambassador.2001, Peter David, The Rift (2001) (Star Trek: The Original Series Book 57), Simon & Schuster, page 161
Forms of ambass
| third-person singular present | ambasses |
|---|---|
| present participle | ambassing |
| past participle | ambassed |
| past | ambassed |
Origin of ambass
Irregular back-formation from ambassador.
Questions about ambass
- What does ambass mean?
- Ambass means to engage in the professional work of an ambassador.
- How do you use ambass in a sentence?
- Politics, graft, war, sport and scandal are aired in turn, but the "ambassador" fails to ambass — the "worker" fails to work — the "messenger" makes a mess of it.
- What part of speech is ambass?
- Ambass is a verb.
- What is the past tense of ambass?
- The past tense of ambass is ambassed.
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