EMBOWED

Adjective

embowed (not comparable)

(heraldry) Bent, curved or arched like a bow.

Verb

embowed

simple past tense and past participle of embow

Source: Wiktionary


EMBOW

Em*bow", v. t.

Definition: To bend like a bow; to curve. "Embowed arches." [Obs. or R.] Sir W. Scott. With gilded horns embowed like the moon. Spenser.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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24 May 2025

EARTHSHAKING

(adjective) sufficiently significant to affect the whole world; “earthshaking proposals”; “the contest was no world-shaking affair”; “the conversation...could hardly be called world-shattering”


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