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imprime

imprime verb: to drive (a hunted animal) out of its shelter.

Verb

imprime (third-person singular simple present imprimes, present participle impriming, simple past and past participle imprimed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To drive (a hunted animal) out of its shelter.
    • This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed...1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion

Forms of imprime

third-person singular presentimprimes
present participleimpriming
past participleimprimed
pastimprimed

Questions about imprime

What does imprime mean?
Imprime means to drive (a hunted animal) out of its shelter.
What part of speech is imprime?
Imprime is a verb.
What is the past tense of imprime?
The past tense of imprime is imprimed.

Words near imprime in the dictionary

  1. imprevisible
  2. imprimantur
  3. imprimatur
  4. imprimatura
  5. imprimaturs
  6. imprime
  7. imprimed
  8. imprimeries
  9. imprimery
  10. imprimes
  11. impriming

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