embrawn

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verb

To make (someone or something) brawny.

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Meanings

verbembrawn (third-person singular simple present embrawns, present participle embrawning, simple past and past participle embrawned)

present singular third person embrawns · participle present embrawning · participle past embrawned · past embrawned

  1. transitiveTo make (someone or something) brawny.

    Embravvne your ſoft-skind encloſure vvith Adamantine duſt, that it may dravve nothing but ſteele vnto it.

    1593, Tho[mas] Nashe, Christs Teares Over Ierusalem. […], London: […] Iames Roberts, and are to be solde by Andrewe Wise, […], →OCLC, folio 34, recto
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    It almost seemed in him, that ere promising forever to protect, as well as eternally to love, his Lucy, he must first completely invigorate and embrawn himself into the possession of such a noble muscular manliness, that he might champion Lucy against the whole physical world.

    1852 July, Herman Melville, “(please specify the book number)”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC

Origin

From em- + brawn.

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embrawn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embrawn

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

Chicago

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

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