engroove

English edit

Etymology edit

From en- +‎ groove.

Verb edit

engroove (third-person singular simple present engrooves, present participle engrooving, simple past and past participle engrooved)

To fit into a groove; to channel
- 1816, Encyclopaedia Perthensis‎^[1], Digitized edition, J. Brown, published 2010, page 668:
  The box i is engrooved into the edge of the stock a b, so that it may move freely ...
- 1880, RD Blackmore, Mary Anerley‎^[2], HTML edition, The Gutenberg Project, published 2006:
  The boy had forgotten that the moor just here was broken by a narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water.
- 1992, Anaïs Nin, Incest: From a Journal of Love‎^[3], Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, →ISBN, page 25:
  I would like sometimes to rest, to be at peace, to choose a nook, a love, and engroove myself in it — to make a final selection.

References edit

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Supplement, Vol. XI, Page 0427, engroove

Anagrams edit

gone over, overgone