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enship

enship verb: to put aboard a ship.

Verb

enship (third-person singular simple present enships, present participle enshipping, simple past and past participle enshipped)

  1. (transitive) To put aboard a ship.
  2. (transitive) To travel or send by ship.
    • […] but to my surprise we had orders for India and were to enship within three weeks.2013, Mary Fitzgerald, The Love of a Lifetime, page 342

Synonyms of enship

Forms of enship

third-person singular presentenships
present participleenshipping
past participleenshipped
pastenshipped
alternative forminship

Origin of enship

Alteration of earlier inship, equivalent to in- + ship. Compare West Frisian ynskipje (“to board a ship”), Dutch inschepen (“to ship, embark”), German einschiffen (“to ship, embark”), Danish indskibe (“to ship, embark”), Swedish inskeppa (“to ship, embark”).

Questions about enship

What does enship mean?
Enship means to put aboard a ship.
What part of speech is enship?
Enship is a verb.
What is the past tense of enship?
The past tense of enship is enshipped.

Words near enship in the dictionary

  1. enshield
  2. enshielded
  3. enshielding
  4. enshields
  5. Enshih
  6. enship
  7. enshitification
  8. enshittening
  9. enshitternet
  10. enshittification
  11. enshittified

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