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enambushing

enambushing is the present participle and gerund of enambush.

Meaning of enambush

Verb

enambush (third-person singular simple present enambushes, present participle enambushing, simple past and past participle enambushed)

  1. (obsolete) To ambush.
    • For which they went, within a vale close to a flood, whose stream
      Us'd to give all their cattle drink, they there enambush'd them[1611?], Homer, “(please specify |book=I to XXIV)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets. […], London: […] Nathaniell Butter, →OCLC; republished as The Iliads of Homer...

Questions about enambushing

What is enambushing the present participle and gerund of?
Enambushing is the present participle and gerund of enambush.

Words near enambushing in the dictionary

  1. enambering
  2. enambers
  3. enambush
  4. enambushed
  5. enambushes
  6. enambushing
  7. enamdar
  8. enamdars
  9. enamel
  10. enamel paper
  11. enamel papers

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