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inwander

inwander verb: to wander in.

Verb

inwander (third-person singular simple present inwanders, present participle inwandering, simple past and past participle inwandered)

  1. (intransitive, nonce-word, nonstandard) To wander in.
    • Around edge note nuclei seem intent on leaving second row to inwander; […]1900, Pamphlets on Biology: Kofoid collection
    • The cells of the equatorial region, which normally inwander last, and which should in fact lie in the entoderm of the subsequent budding tip of the hydrocaulus, […]1971, Giuseppe Reverberi, Experimental embryology of marine and fresh-water invertebrates

Forms of inwander

third-person singular presentinwanders
present participleinwandering
past participleinwandered
pastinwandered

Origin of inwander

From in- + wander.

Words formed from inwander

Questions about inwander

What does inwander mean?
Inwander means to wander in.
What part of speech is inwander?
Inwander is a verb.
What is the past tense of inwander?
The past tense of inwander is inwandered.

Words near inwander in the dictionary

  1. inwales
  2. inwall
  3. inwalled
  4. inwalling
  5. inwalls
  6. inwander
  7. inwanderer
  8. inwanderers
  9. inwanders
  10. inward
  11. inward light

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