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49,898 words match “EN”

ENFAMISH v.
To famish; to starve.
ENFECT a.
Contaminated with illegality. [Obs.] Chaucer.
ENFEEBLE v.
To make feeble; to deprive of strength; to reduce the strength or force of; to weaken; to debilitate. Enfeebled by scanty subsistence and excessive toil. Prescott.
ENFEEBLEMENT n.
The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.
ENFEEBLER n.
One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.
ENFEEBLISH v.
To enfeeble. [Obs.] Holland.
ENFELONED a.
Rendered fierce or frantic. [Obs.] "Like one enfeloned or distraught." Spenser.
ENFEOFF v. 2 definitions
st with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment. Mozley & W.
ENFEOFFMENT n. 2 definitions
The act of enfeoffing.
ENFESTER v.
To fester. [Obs.] "Enfestered sores." Davies (Holy Roode).
ENFETTER v.
To bind in fetters; to enchain. "Enfettered to her love." Shak.
ENFEVER v.
To excite fever in. [R.] A. Seward.
ENFIERCE v.
To make fierce. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENFILADE n. 3 definitions
A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire.
ENFILED p.
object, as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.
ENFIRE v.
To set on fire. [Obs.] Spenser.
ENFLESH v.
To clothe with flesh. [Obs.] Vices which are . . . enfleshed in him. Florio.
ENFLEURAGE n.
A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents, as fixed oils or fats, to the exhalations of the flowers. It is used for plants whose volatile oils are too delicate to be separated by distillation.
ENFLOWER v.
To cover or deck with flowers. [Poetic] These odorous and enflowered fields. B. Jonson.
ENFOLD v.
To infold. See Infold.
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