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embrawn

embrawn verb: to make (someone or something) brawny.

Verb

embrawn (third-person singular simple present embrawns, present participle embrawning, simple past and past participle embrawned)

  1. (transitive) To make (someone or something) brawny.
    • Embravvne your ſoft-skind encloſure vvith Adamantine duſt, that it may dravve nothing but ſteele vnto it.1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, Christs Teares Over Ierusalem. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, and are to be solde by Andrewe Wise, […], →OCLC, folio 34, recto
    • It almost seemed in him, that ere promising forever to protect, as well as eternally to love, his Lucy, he must first completely invigorate and embrawn himself into the possession of such a noble muscular manliness, that he might champion Lucy against the whole physical world.1852 July, Herman Melville, “(please specify the book number)”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC

Forms of embrawn

third-person singular presentembrawns
present participleembrawning
past participleembrawned
pastembrawned

Origin of embrawn

From em- + brawn.

Questions about embrawn

What does embrawn mean?
Embrawn means to make (someone or something) brawny.
What part of speech is embrawn?
Embrawn is a verb.
What is the past tense of embrawn?
The past tense of embrawn is embrawned.

Words near embrawn in the dictionary

  1. embrasures
  2. embrave
  3. embraved
  4. embraves
  5. embraving
  6. embrawn
  7. embrawned
  8. embrawning
  9. embrawns
  10. embrazure
  11. embrazures

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