Meaning

3 senses

  1. (poetic, transitive)To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.

    enclose in a bower

  2. (intransitive)To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.

    But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;

  3. (intransitive)To form a bower.

Origin

Ultimately from Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“b

Ultimately from Old English būr, from Proto-Germanic *būraz. Cognate with German Bauer (“birdcage”), Old Norse búr, (whence Danish bur, Swedish bur (“cage”)). Equivalent to en- + bower.

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Forms

embowers, embowering, embowered, embowered
Base formembower · to embower
3rd person singularembowers
Present participleembowering
Past simpleembowered
Past participleembowered

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyembower
he, she, itembowers

Past simpleLesson

all personsembowered

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave embowered
he, she, ithas embowered

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill embower

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

Word family

2 related words
Derivedembowermentunembowered

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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