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emmew

emmew verb: to mew or coop up.

Verb

emmew (third-person singular simple present emmews, present participle emmewing, simple past and past participle emmewed)

  1. (obsolete) To mew or coop up.

Forms of emmew

third-person singular presentemmews
present participleemmewing
past participleemmewed
pastemmewed

Origin of emmew

Alteration of earlier immew.

Questions about emmew

What does emmew mean?
Emmew means to mew or coop up.
What part of speech is emmew?
Emmew is a verb.
What is the past tense of emmew?
The past tense of emmew is emmewed.

Words near emmew in the dictionary

  1. emmetropized
  2. emmetropy
  3. emmets
  4. Emmetsburg
  5. Emmett
  6. emmew
  7. emmewed
  8. emmewing
  9. emmews
  10. Emmick
  11. Emmicks

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