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ennobles

ennobles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ennoble.

Meaning of ennoble

Verb

ennoble (third-person singular simple present ennobles, present participle ennobling, simple past and past participle ennobled)

  1. To bestow with nobility, honour or grace.
    • We’d like to believe that suffering instructs and ennobles.2020, Francine Prose, “Has Trump learned anything from Covid-19? Absolutely not”, in The Grauniad
  2. To perform on a fabric the industrial processes of dry-cleaning, printing and embossing, and sizing and finishing.
  3. (obsolete, transitive) To inarch.

Questions about ennobles

What is ennobles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Ennobles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of ennoble.

Words near ennobles in the dictionary

  1. ennobled
  2. ennoblement
  3. ennoblements
  4. ennobler
  5. ennoblers
  6. ennobles
  7. ennobleth
  8. ennobling
  9. ennoblingly
  10. ennoblings
  11. ennoblise

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