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imbosk

imbosk verb: to hide or conceal oneself.

Verb

imbosk (third-person singular simple present imbosks, present participle imbosking, simple past and past participle imbosked)

  1. (obsolete) To hide or conceal oneself
    • I turned to imbosk myself1612–1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], translated by Thomas Shelton, The History of the Valorous and Wittie Knight-errant Don-Quixote of the Mancha. […], London: […] William Stansby, for Ed[ward] Blount...

Forms of imbosk

third-person singular presentimbosks
present participleimbosking
past participleimbosked
pastimbosked

Origin of imbosk

From in- (“in”) + bosk (“thicket, small wood”).

Questions about imbosk

What does imbosk mean?
Imbosk means to hide or conceal oneself.
What part of speech is imbosk?
Imbosk is a verb.
What is the past tense of imbosk?
The past tense of imbosk is imbosked.

Words near imbosk in the dictionary

  1. imbordures
  2. imborduring
  3. imborsation
  4. imborsations
  5. imbos
  6. imbosk
  7. imbosked
  8. imbosking
  9. imbosks
  10. imbosom
  11. imbosomed

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