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embow

/ɪmˈbəʊ/

embow verb: to bend like a bow; to curve.

Verb

embow (third-person singular simple present embows, present participle embowing, simple past and past participle embowed)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To bend like a bow; to curve.
    • embowed arches1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees...
    • with gilded horns embowd like the moon1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “Visions of the Worlds Vanitie”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC

embow meaning in Bengali

embow in Bengali

ধনুকের মতো বাঁকানো, বক্র করা

Forms of embow

third-person singular presentembows
present participleembowing
past participleembowed
pastembowed

Origin of embow

From em- + bow.

Words formed from embow

Questions about embow

What does embow mean?
Embow means to bend like a bow; to curve.
What is embow in Bengali?
Embow in Bengali is ধনুকের মতো বাঁকানো, বক্র করা. See Embow meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is embow?
Embow is a verb.
How do you pronounce embow?
Embow is pronounced /ɪmˈbəʊ/.
What is the past tense of embow?
The past tense of embow is embowed.

Words near embow in the dictionary

  1. embourgeoised
  2. embourgeoisement
  3. embourgeoises
  4. embourgeoising
  5. embourgeoisé
  6. embow
  7. embowed
  8. embowel
  9. emboweled
  10. emboweling
  11. embowelings

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embow (page history and authors); embow (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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