Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to embower
Participle: embowered
Gerund: embowering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | embower |
| you | embower |
| he;she;it | embowers |
| we | embower |
| you | embower |
| they | embower |
Perfect
| I | have embowered |
| you | have embowered |
| he;she;it | has embowered |
| we | have embowered |
| you | have embowered |
| they | have embowered |
Past
| I | embowered |
| you | embowered |
| he;she;it | embowered |
| we | embowered |
| you | embowered |
| they | embowered |
Pluperfect
| I | had embowered |
| you | had embowered |
| he;she;it | had embowered |
| we | had embowered |
| you | had embowered |
| they | had embowered |
Future
| I | will embower |
| you | will embower |
| he;she;it | will embower |
| we | will embower |
| you | will embower |
| they | will embower |
Future Perfect
| I | will have embowered |
| you | will have embowered |
| he;she;it | will have embowered |
| we | will have embowered |
| you | will have embowered |
| they | will have embowered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | embower |
| you | embower |
| he;she;it | embower |
| we | embower |
| you | embower |
| they | embower |
Perfect
| I | have embowered |
| you | have embowered |
| he;she;it | have embowered |
| we | have embowered |
| you | have embowered |
| they | have embowered |
Imperfect
| I | embowered |
| you | embowered |
| he;she;it | embowered |
| we | embowered |
| you | embowered |
| they | embowered |
Pluperfect
| I | had embowered |
| you | had embowered |
| he;she;it | had embowered |
| we | had embowered |
| you | had embowered |
| they | had embowered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would embower |
| you | would embower |
| he;she;it | would embower |
| we | would embower |
| you | would embower |
| they | would embower |
Perfect
| I | would have embowered |
| you | would have embowered |
| he;she;it | would have embowered |
| we | would have embowered |
| you | would have embowered |
| they | would have embowered |
Imperative
| you | embower |
| we | Let's embower |
| you | embower |
Verbs conjugated like 'embower'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'embower'
embowel,
empower,
imbower,
bower,
emborder,
embow,
embowl,
emvowel,
endower,
imbowel,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
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.
Sample Sentences
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Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank,
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Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d [1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:]
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A small Indian village, pleasantly embowered in a grove of spreading elms. [1809, Diedrich Knickerbocker [pseudonym; Washington Irving], A History of New York, from the Beginning of the World to the End of the Dutch Dynasty. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), New York, N.Y.: Inskeep & Bradford, […], →OCLC:]
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The house stood in a situation so embowered, solitary, and remote from others, that when evening closed in, Mrs. De Brooke and her daughter, had they not reposed their security on the usual tranquillity of the neighbourhood, might have felt their courage forsake them;[…] [1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XIX, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 243:]
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And the silent isle imbowers / The Lady of Shalott [1852, Alfred Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott:]
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The embowered lanes, and the primroses and the hawthorn [1884, Donald Grant Mitchell, Bound Together:]
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A few rods farther led him past the old black Presbyterian church, with its square tower, embowered in a stately grove; past the Catholic church, with its many crosses, and a painted wooden figure of St. James in a recess beneath the gable; and past the old Jefferson House, once the leading hotel of the town, in front of which political meetings had been held, and political speeches made, and political hard cider drunk, in the days of "Tippecanoe and Tyler too." [1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:]
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But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
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Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks
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In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades
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High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge
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Afloat [1667, John Milton, “Book XI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 302-305:]