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enhalo

enhalo verb: to surround something with a halo.

Verb

enhalo (third-person singular simple present enhalos or enhaloes, present participle enhaloing, simple past and past participle enhaloed)

  1. (transitive) To surround something with a halo.
    • Does not every bird's eye in its sapphire excellence recall a trusty bénédicité, "speed well,"—the story of lives compressed in two words? Smiles and tears enhalo it, and it surely accelerates our buoyancy of movement to the rivulet, where forget-me-nots—a treasure trove—are garrisoned by King Cup...1880, C. J., “Winter and Summer”, in The Sunday Magazine; For Family Reading, London: Isbister and Company Limited
    • I turned and looked down the slope of the hill to where, enhaloed now in birds, stood those other two Martians that I had seen over-night, just as death had overtaken them.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 284

Forms of enhalo

third-person singular presentenhalos
third-person singular presentenhaloes
present participleenhaloing
past participleenhaloed
pastenhaloed

Origin of enhalo

From en- + halo.

Words that rhyme with enhalo

Questions about enhalo

What does enhalo mean?
Enhalo means to surround something with a halo.
What part of speech is enhalo?
Enhalo is a verb.
What is the past tense of enhalo?
The past tense of enhalo is enhaloed.

Words near enhalo in the dictionary

  1. enhabitants
  2. enhabited
  3. enhabiting
  4. enhabits
  5. enhallowed
  6. enhalo
  7. enhaloed
  8. enhaloes
  9. enhaloing
  10. enhalos
  11. Enham Alamein

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