v
(intransitive, archaic) To spring, start, make a sudden movement.
adj
(rare, obsolete) accustomed to war
n
(dated) An ambush; a trap laid for an enemy.
adj
(obsolete) Posted in ambush; ambuscaded.
n
The concealed position or state from which a surprise attack is launched.
v
(transitive) To entrap; to ensnare.
n
Alternative form of back to the wall [(idiomatic) A very difficult situation with no beneficial options available for action.]
v
(transitive, intransitive) To enter a restricted area by showing one's badge.
n
(figuratively, by extension) An impediment that prohibits the use, adoption, application, etc. of (something).
n
(figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.
v
(transitive) To straiten; restrict; constrain; limit.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To surround; environ; enclose.
v
(transitive) To surround or hem in.
v
(transitive, reflexive, archaic) To shield around or about; protect; defend.
v
(archaic, poetic) To sweep.
v
(transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To make bold, give courage or confidence to.
v
(transitive, obsolete) Alternative form of boun [(transitive, intransitive) To make or get ready; prepare.]
v
(transitive, figuratively) To suppress and hide away in one's mind.
v
To confine in a cage; to put into and keep in a cage.
n
(slang, archaic) A prison sentence.
n
The act of one who clings.
n
(Scotland) A very narrow alley between two buildings, often overhung by one of the buildings above the ground floor.
v
(transitive) To hold inside.
v
(intransitive) To form a cope or arch; to arch or bend; to bow.
n
A punishment consisting of a period of time for which the culprit (usually a mischievous child) must stand still in a corner, facing the wall.or put their nose in the corner
v
(idiomatic) To put covers over oneself in bed.
v
To restrict, limit or narrowly define; to pigeonhole.
v
(by extension, transitive) To apply selectivity and taste to, as a collection of fashion items or web pages.
v
(transitive) To rein in.
v
(reflexive) To ensconce or hide oneself in (or as in) a den.
v
(transitive, idiomatic) To fasten (a piece of clothing, etc.); to tighten (a nut etc.)
v
(obsolete, transitive) To bind up; to enclose, or make into a pack.
v
(transitive, figuratively) To preserve.
v
(transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
v
to hide or conceal in leaves
v
(obsolete) Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
v
(obsolete) To enclose or bury.
v
(intransitive) To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
n
The act of enclosing something in a bower (a shady, leafy shelter or recess).
n
State of being contained; enclosure.
v
To draw into a situation; to cause to be involved.
v
(obsolete) To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush.
v
Obsolete form of imprison. [(transitive) To put in or as if in prison; confine somebody against their will.]
v
(transitive) To capture.
n
The act of enchaining, or state of being enchained.
v
(figuratively) To be a setting for.
v
(transitive) To confine in a dungeon.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To entangle.
v
(transitive) To garrison; to put in garrison, or to protect by a garrison.
v
(transitive) To make into an island.
v
(transitive) To place in a niche.
v
(obsolete) To arrange in order; to rank.
adj
Placed in a secure environment.
n
(countable) The act of enshrining or something that enshrines
v
(figuratively, transitive) To confine in restrictive surroundings.
v
(figuratively) To encarriage, to conjoin, to link; as in a series of entities, elements, objects or processes.
n
(military) An offensive action in which an attacking force moves over or around the enemy and attacks from the rear; see also pincer movement.
v
(transitive, dialectal) To hide.
v
(sociology) To limit (sometimes manipulatively, rather than directly) how much of a role another party, often a spouse, has in some task.
v
(idiomatic) To change one's clothing (usually for a specific purpose).
v
(slang, transitive) To attach oneself to.
v
(transitive, dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To hedge or fence in; inclose; protect by hedging
adj
impeded or encumbered as if chained or fettered
adj
(figuratively) Restricted as if by being crippled with a hamstring.
n
The act by which somebody is handcuffed.
v
(transitive) To obstruct or surround.
v
(figuratively, by extension) To limit or constrain (someone).
v
(intransitive) To put oneself in a place where one will be harder to find or out of sight.
v
(idiomatic) To conceal one's positive qualities or talents, especially due to modesty or shyness; to avoid attention.
n
Alternative form of hiddle [(now chiefly dialectal) A hiding-place; a sheltered spot.]
v
(transitive) To hoard or lay up, in a chest.
v
(obsolete) To bar in; to secure.
v
Alternative spelling of embed [(transitive) To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.]
v
(obsolete) To hide or conceal oneself
v
(transitive, mathematics) To map into an immersion.
v
(transitive, crystallography and geology, of a growing crystal) To trap or capture (an impurity); chiefly in the participial adjective immured and gerund or gerundial noun immuring.
v
(transitive) To bury in, or cast into, a ditch.
v
Obsolete spelling of enfile [(obsolete, transitive) To thread onto, or hang up on, a string or cord.]
v
Obsolete form of enisle. [(transitive) To make into an island.]
v
(transitive, obsolete) To lie in ambush for.
v
To bring or force into service.
adj
Alternative spelling of interred [Having been interred.]
v
Archaic spelling of intern. [(transitive) To imprison somebody, usually without trial.]
v
(archaic, transitive) To hide in the woods.
n
A person who lays anything, such as tiles or a wager.
v
(transitive, military) To enclose (a field, etc.) for combat.
v
To lock someone up in prison indefinitely.
v
(intransitive) To lie half-hidden or in shelter.
v
(transitive) To cover over.
v
(informal, intransitive) To form a small group.
v
(intransitive) To sit upon the edge of something.
n
That which supports or upholds.
v
(transitive) To reinforce something weak.
n
The act of performing a poussette.
v
(transitive) To place inside.
v
(transitive) To fortify, to make into a stronghold.
v
(transitive) To specify that funds may only be used for a specific purpose, especially government funds.
v
(intransitive, informal, Australia) To put on layers of warm clothes; to wrap up
n
The act by which something is skewered.
n
A stile formed by two uprights close enough together to allow a person to squeeze through but too narrow for livestock to pass.
n
(military, obsolete) An ambush.
v
(archaic) To stint; to stop; to cease.
n
The act by which somebody is stranded.
n
One who, or that which, stretches.
n
The act by which something is tagged.
v
(transitive) To hastily put on (clothes).
n
One who, or that which, trusses.
v
(transitive) To brace, fasten, or bind underneath.
adj
Trapped, cornered; discommoded, discomfited; in a quandary.
n
(idiomatic) Golden handcuffs: any arrangement designed to provide favorable benefits or pay so as to discourage a participant from wanting to leave it.
v
Obsolete spelling of wear [To carry or have equipped on or about one's body, as an item of clothing, equipment, decoration, etc.]
v
(intransitive, UK, prison slang) To barricade oneself in one's cell.
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