enshelter

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verb

To shelter.

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Meanings

verbenshelter (third-person singular simple present enshelters, present participle ensheltering, simple past and past participle ensheltered)

present singular third person enshelters · participle present ensheltering · participle past ensheltered · past ensheltered

  1. obsoleteTo shelter.

    If that the Turkish Fleete Be not enshelter'd, and embay'd, they are drown'd

    c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]

Origin

From en- + shelter.

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APA

enshelter. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enshelter

MLA

“enshelter.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enshelter. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enshelter,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enshelter.

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