Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To take within, as in telescoping one part of the intestine into another; invaginate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To take up into itself or into something else; invaginate.
WordNet 3.0
- v. introvert or invaginate
Etymologies
- Probably back-formation from intussusception. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
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Lists
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What David Foster Wallace circled in ...
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What David Foster Wallace Circled in ...
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Lispers' Nemeses
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Miscellany, pt. i
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To Bring or Take In
Words meaning to bring or take in.
adhibit, admit, assimilate, insorb, absorb, accommodate, incorporate, imbibe, suck, aspirate, ebibe, subsume and 8 more...
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she Whoops!
Ahem. *quietly brushes word into neighboring pile*
(What's more, this most likely isn't the only neat word I've accidentally put here while browsing for candidates..) Sep 5, 2008
Prolagus WHAT?! Wow!
But, she... this word doesn't have an M! Sep 5, 2008