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inwrite

inwrite is the alternative spelling of enwrite.

Meaning of enwrite

Verb

enwrite (third-person singular simple present enwrites, present participle enwriting, simple past enwrote, past participle enwritten)

  1. (transitive) To write upon something; inscribe; imprint.
    • It is the good fortune of those who lay foundations to so inwrite their names in the annals of the institutions that they found that the historian can neither overlook them nor ignore them.1905, Iowa State Education Association, Proceedings of the Annual Session

Forms of inwrite

third-person singular presentinwrites
present participleinwriting
pastinwrote
past participleinwritten
past participleinwrit

Origin of inwrite

From Middle English inwriten (“to inscribe”), from Old English *inwrītan (“to inscribe”), suggested by Old English inwrītere (“writer, secretary”) and Old English inwritting (“inscription”), equivalent to in- + write.

Questions about inwrite

What is inwrite the alternative spelling of?
Inwrite is the alternative spelling of enwrite.

Words near inwrite in the dictionary

  1. inwreathe
  2. inwreathed
  3. inwreathes
  4. inwreathing
  5. inwrit
  6. inwrite
  7. inwrites
  8. inwriting
  9. inwritten
  10. inwrote
  11. inwrought

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inwrite (page history and authors); enwrite (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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