embower

动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage. poetic,transitive
    — Her hand he seis’d, and to a shadie bank, Thick overhead with verdant roof imbowr’d
  2. To lodge or rest in or as in a bower. intransitive
    — But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
  3. To form a bower. intransitive
    — Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr; or scattered sedge Afloat

词形变化

embowers present,singular,third-person embowering participle,present embowered participle,past embowered past imbower alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
embowerment unembowered

词源

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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