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Definition of embower
transitive verb
: to shelter or enclose in or as if in a bower like a rose embowered in its own green leaves — P. B. Shelley
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Examples of embower in a Sentence
over the years grapevines have completely embowered the summerhouse in the garden
Recent Examples of embower from the Web
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Once way out in the woods, reached only by wagon road from Seattle, today Denny Park is the only place left in the neighborhood where the public can enjoy such an intact canopy of big trees embowering open ground.
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First Known Use of embower
1580
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