emmarble

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/ɪˈmɑː(ɹ)bəl/

A form of enmarble — To turn to marble; to make as hard as marble; to harden.

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Meanings

verbemmarble (third-person singular simple present emmarbles, present participle emmarbling, simple past and past participle emmarbled)

present singular third person emmarbles · participle present emmarbling · participle past emmarbled · past emmarbled

  1. alternativeobsoletepoeticAlternative form of enmarble.

    pictured or emmarbled dreams

    1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Crowned and Buried
    2 more examples

    Thou dost emmarble the proud heart.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, A Hymn in Honour of Love

    But all the blowes and pressures were so farre from softning their hearts, that they hardened and emmarbled them more and more.

    1630, Robert Bolton, “A Sermon preached at Lent Assises, Anno Domini, MDCXXX”, in Mr. Boltons Last and Learned Worke of the Foure last Things, Death, Iudgement, Hell, and Heaven. With his Assise-Sermons and Notes on Iustice Nicolls his Funerall, 4th edition, London, published 1639, page 220

Origin

From em- + marble.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

embalmer
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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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