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empawn

empawn is the archaic form of impawn.

Meaning of impawn

Verb

impawn (third-person singular simple present impawns, present participle impawning, simple past and past participle impawned)

  1. (transitive) To place an item into pawn.
  2. (transitive) To pledge an item of value in return for a loan, or a trade for money.
    • He had to impawn everything he owned just to pay his rent.

Forms of empawn

third-person singular presentempawns
present participleempawning
past participleempawned
pastempawned

Questions about empawn

What is empawn the archaic form of?
Empawn is the archaic form of impawn.

Words near empawn in the dictionary

  1. empathy game
  2. empathy games
  3. empathy map
  4. empathy maps
  5. empathyless
  6. empawn
  7. empawned
  8. empawning
  9. empawns
  10. empayre
  11. empayred

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Adapted from Wiktionary: empawn (page history and authors); impawn (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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