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embowered

embowered is the simple past and past participle of embower.

Meaning of embower

Verb

embower (third-person singular simple present embowers, present participle embowering, simple past and past participle embowered)

  1. (poetic, transitive) To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
    • Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank,
      Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...
  2. (intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
    • But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
  3. (intransitive) To form a bower.
    • Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
      In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades
      High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge
      Afloat1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

Words formed from embowered

Questions about embowered

What is embowered the simple past and past participle of?
Embowered is the simple past and past participle of embower.

Words near embowered in the dictionary

  1. embowellings
  2. embowelment
  3. embowelments
  4. embowels
  5. embower
  6. embowered
  7. embowering
  8. embowerment
  9. embowerments
  10. embowers
  11. embowing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embowered (page history and authors); embower (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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