impave

English edit

Etymology edit

From im- +‎ pave?

Verb edit

impave (third-person singular simple present impaves, present participle impaving, simple past and past participle impaved)

(archaic, poetic, transitive) To pave.
- 1835, William Wordsworth, On revisiting Dunolly Castle:
  Impaved with rude fidelity / Of art mosaic.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “impave”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

vimpae