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verb
To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: poetic, transitive
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verb
To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
To form a bower.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: intransitive
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verb
enclose in a bower
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bower
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: enclose, close in, inclose, shut in
History
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.
Across languages
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
