ambering

Verb

amber (third-person singular simple present ambers, present participle ambering, simple past and past participle ambered)

1. (rare, transitive) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
   • ambered wine, an ambered room
2. (rare, transitive) To preserve in amber.
   • an ambered fly
3. (literary, poetic, rare, transitive) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
   • For purple mountains majesty; for amber waves of grain.1885, America the Beautiful
4. (intransitive, literary, poetic, rare) To take on the yellow colour of amber.
   • Westward along Lancaster Avenue, among the stone walls and broad driveways of imposing old houses—their lawns dappled with the shade of ambering maples and dusty, bark-peeled sycamores—2009, Jack Wennerstrom, Black Coffee, page 19

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