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- IPA: /ɛnˈɡrəʊs/
- IPA: /ɛŋˈɡrəʊs/
- US:
- IPA: /ɛnˈɡroʊs/
- IPA: /ɛŋˈɡroʊs/
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Määritelmät
Verbit
- (transitive, now legal) To write (a document) in large, aesthetic, and legible lettering; to make a finalized copy of.
- (transitive, business, obsolete) To buy up wholesale, especially to buy the whole supply of (a commodity etc.).
- (transitive) To monopolize; to concentrate (something) in the single possession of someone, especially unfairly.
- (transitive) To completely engage the attention of.
- (transitive, obsolete) To thicken; to condense.
- To make gross, thick, or large; to thicken; to increase in bulk or quantity.
- (obsolete) To amass.
Esimerkit
- some period long past, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials
- laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail
- After which time the Popes of Rome, engrossing what they pleas'd of Politicall rule into their owne hands, extended their dominion over mens eyes, as they had before over their judgements, burning and prohibiting to be read, what they fancied not [...]
- Octavian then engrosses for himself proconsular powers for ten years in all the provinces where more than one legion was stationed, giving him effective control of the army.
- She seems to be completely engrossed in that book.
- As, when a foggy mist hath overcast / The face of heven, and the cleare ayre engroste, / The world in darkenes dwels [...]
- waves [...] engrossed with mud
- not sleeping, to engross his idle body
- to engross up glorious deeds on my behalf
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