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enamber

enamber verb: to preserve in, or as if in, amber.

Verb

enamber (third-person singular simple present enambers, present participle enambering, simple past and past participle enambered)

  1. (transitive) To preserve in, or as if in, amber.
    • Nor is it to place Johnson within that still more famous and tragic generation of Rhymers' Club poets which Yeats was so sumptuously to enamber in literary myth.2014, Linda C. Dowling, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford, page 135

Forms of enamber

third-person singular presentenambers
present participleenambering
past participleenambered
pastenambered

Origin of enamber

From en- + amber.

Questions about enamber

What does enamber mean?
Enamber means to preserve in, or as if in, amber.
What part of speech is enamber?
Enamber is a verb.
What is the past tense of enamber?
The past tense of enamber is enambered.

Words near enamber in the dictionary

  1. enallenes
  2. enals
  3. enaluron
  4. enalutamide
  5. enam
  6. enamber
  7. enambered
  8. enambering
  9. enambers
  10. enambush
  11. enambushed

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