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encaptive

encaptive verb: to take as a captive; capture.

Verb

encaptive (third-person singular simple present encaptives, present participle encaptiving, simple past and past participle encaptived)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To take as a captive; capture.

Forms of encaptive

third-person singular presentencaptives
present participleencaptiving
past participleencaptived
pastencaptived

Origin of encaptive

From en- + captive.

Questions about encaptive

What does encaptive mean?
Encaptive means to take as a captive; capture.
What part of speech is encaptive?
Encaptive is a verb.
What is the past tense of encaptive?
The past tense of encaptive is encaptived.

Words near encaptive in the dictionary

  1. encaptions
  2. encaptivate
  3. encaptivated
  4. encaptivates
  5. encaptivating
  6. encaptive
  7. encaptived
  8. encaptives
  9. encaptiving
  10. encapture
  11. encaptured

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