Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To enclose in or as if in a womb.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make pregnant.
- To bury; hide as in a womb, pit, or cavern.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To conceive in the womb.
- transitive verb To bury, as it were in a womb; to hide, as in a gulf, pit, or cavern.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb poetic, archaic To place or cause to be contained in the
womb ; to make pregnant; toconceive . - verb To
enclose .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From en- + womb.
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Examples
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And at the same time the huge body tried to take the invader and enwomb it.
The Gunslinger King, Stephen, 1947- 1982
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