embower

Verb

Verb Forms: embowered, embowering, embowers

To shelter or surround with a bower or foliage.
enclose in a bower
To enclose something or someone as if in a bower; shelter with foliage.
To lodge or rest in or as in a bower.
To form a bower.

Examples

But the small birds in their wide boughs embowring / Chaunted their sundrie tunes with sweete consent;
The ’ING’ suffix seemed to embower his short root word, making it much longer and more valuable.

Origin / Etymology

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.

Synonyms

bower

Scrabble Score: 14

embower: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
embower: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
embower: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 16

embower: valid Words With Friends Word