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imbow

imbow is the obsolete form of embow.

Meaning of embow

Verb

embow (third-person singular simple present embows, present participle embowing, simple past and past participle embowed)

  1. (ambitransitive, archaic) To bend like a bow; to curve.
    • embowed arches1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees...

Forms of imbow

third-person singular presentimbows
present participleimbowing
past participleimbowed
pastimbowed

Origin of imbow

From im- + bow.

Questions about imbow

What is imbow the obsolete form of?
Imbow is the obsolete form of embow.

Words near imbow in the dictionary

  1. imbosture
  2. imbound
  3. imbounded
  4. imbounding
  5. imbounds
  6. imbow
  7. imbowed
  8. imbowel
  9. imboweled
  10. imboweling
  11. imbowelled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imbow (page history and authors); embow (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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