embale

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/ɪmˈbeɪl/

verb

To bind up; to pack, or bundle up into a pack.

OriginFrench emballer →
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Meanings

verbembale (third-person singular simple present embales, present participle embaling, simple past and past participle embaled)

present singular third person embales · participle present embaling · participle past embaled · past embaled

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo bind up; to pack, or bundle up into a pack.

    legs […] embayld in gilden buskins

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 27

Origin

  1. Frenchemballer
  2. Englishembale

From French emballer. See bale.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with embale

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Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

“embale.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embale. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “embale,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embale.

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