Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To make rough.

  2. (intransitive)To form an edging or border; to run in curved or indented lines.

  3. (transitive)To variegate or spot, as with hail.

  4. (archaic, transitive)To indent with small curves.

Origin

From en- + grail.

From en- + grail.

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Forms

engrails, engrailing, engrailed, engrailed
Base formengrail · to engrail
3rd person singularengrails
Present participleengrailing
Past simpleengrailed
Past participleengrailed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyengrail
he, she, itengrails

Past simpleLesson

all personsengrailed

Present perfectLesson

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

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill engrail

Word family

1 related words
Derivedengrailment

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
EnglishA1engraveengravingengrossC1engulfB2

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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