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embowl

embowl verb: to form like a bowl.

Verb

embowl (third-person singular simple present embowls, present participle embowling, simple past and past participle embowled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To form like a bowl
  2. (obsolete, transitive) to give a globular shape to.
    • 16th century,Philip Sidney, Sidney Psalms
      the Earth, embowl'd by thee

Forms of embowl

third-person singular presentembowls
present participleembowling
past participleembowled
pastembowled

Origin of embowl

From em- + bowl.

Questions about embowl

What does embowl mean?
Embowl means to form like a bowl.
What part of speech is embowl?
Embowl is a verb.
What is the past tense of embowl?
The past tense of embowl is embowled.

Words near embowl in the dictionary

  1. embowering
  2. embowerment
  3. embowerments
  4. embowers
  5. embowing
  6. embowl
  7. embowled
  8. embowling
  9. embowls
  10. embowment
  11. embowments

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