enhalo

E1N1H4A1L1O1

verb

To surround something with a halo.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

verbenhalo (third-person singular simple present enhalos or enhaloes, present participle enhaloing, simple past and past participle enhaloed)

present singular third person enhalos · present singular third person enhaloes · participle present enhaloing · participle past enhaloed · past enhaloed

  1. transitiveTo surround something with a halo.

    I turned and looked down the slope of the hill to where, enhaloed now in birds, stood those other two Martians that I had seen over-night, just as death had overtaken them.

    1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 284
    1 more example

    Does not every bird's eye in its sapphire excellence recall a trusty bénédicité, "speed well,"—the story of lives compressed in two words? Smiles and tears enhalo it, and it surely accelerates our buoyancy of movement to the rivulet, where forget-me-nots—a treasure trove—are garrisoned by King Cup and Spear-grass.

    1880, C. J., “Winter and Summer”, in The Sunday Magazine; For Family Reading, London: Isbister and Company Limited

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*h₁én
  2. Proto-Italic*en
  3. Proto-Italic*en-
  4. Latinin-
  5. Old Frenchen-
  6. Middle Englishen-
  7. Englishen-
  8. Englishhalo
  9. Englishenhalo

From en- + halo.

Full word history & related roots →

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with enhalo

All rhymes →
Cite this entry
APA

enhalo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhalo

MLA

“enhalo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhalo. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enhalo,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enhalo.

Source: enhalo on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.