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imborder

imborder is the obsolete form of emborder.

Meaning of emborder

Verb

emborder (third-person singular simple present emborders, present participle embordering, simple past and past participle embordered)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To furnish or adorn with a border.
    • Among thick woven arborets and flours
      Emborder'd on each bank1667, John Milton, “(please specify the page number)”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker...
  2. (archaic, transitive) To border with the same metal or fur, rather than one that contrasts.

Forms of imborder

third-person singular presentimborders
present participleimbordering
past participleimbordered
pastimbordered

Questions about imborder

What is imborder the obsolete form of?
Imborder is the obsolete form of emborder.

Words near imborder in the dictionary

  1. imbondo
  2. imbongi
  3. imbongis
  4. imbonities
  5. imbonity
  6. imborder
  7. imbordered
  8. imbordering
  9. imborders
  10. imbordure
  11. imbordured

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imborder (page history and authors); emborder (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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