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enwomb

enwomb verb: to place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.

Verb

enwomb (third-person singular simple present enwombs, present participle enwombing, simple past and past participle enwombed)

  1. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
    • For not as other wemens commune brood / They were enwombed in the sacred throne / Of her chaste bodie [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
    • Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')2007, John Goldingay, David Payne, Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN
  2. (archaic, poetic, transitive) To enclose.

Forms of enwomb

third-person singular presentenwombs
present participleenwombing
past participleenwombed
pastenwombed
alternative forminwomb

Origin of enwomb

From en- + womb.

Words that rhyme with enwomb

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Questions about enwomb

What does enwomb mean?
Enwomb means to place or cause to be contained in the womb; to make pregnant; to conceive.
What part of speech is enwomb?
Enwomb is a verb.
What is the past tense of enwomb?
The past tense of enwomb is enwombed.

Words near enwomb in the dictionary

  1. enwisens
  2. enwoman
  3. enwomaned
  4. enwomaning
  5. enwomans
  6. enwomb
  7. enwombed
  8. enwombing
  9. enwombs
  10. enwound
  11. enwove

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