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engroove

engroove verb: to fit into a groove; to channel.

Verb

engroove (third-person singular simple present engrooves, present participle engrooving, simple past and past participle engrooved)

  1. To fit into a groove; to channel
    • The box i is engrooved into the edge of the stock a b, so that it may move freely ...1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis, Digitized edition, J. Brown, published 2010, page 668
    • The boy had forgotten that the moor just here was broken by a narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water.1880, RD Blackmore, Mary Anerley, HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006

Forms of engroove

third-person singular presentengrooves
present participleengrooving
past participleengrooved
pastengrooved

Origin of engroove

From en- + groove.

Questions about engroove

What does engroove mean?
Engroove means to fit into a groove; to channel.
What part of speech is engroove?
Engroove is a verb.
What is the past tense of engroove?
The past tense of engroove is engrooved.

Words near engroove in the dictionary

  1. engrieved
  2. engrieves
  3. engrieving
  4. engrimed
  5. Engrish
  6. engroove
  7. engrooved
  8. engrooves
  9. engrooving
  10. engross
  11. engross'd

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