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📖 中文释义

  1. pref. 放进, 使处于...境地, 在里面, 用...包住
📘 English Definition(英文释义)
  1. A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words,
  2. chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written
  3. indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly
  4. changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is
  5. sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause
  6. to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an
  7. intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-.
  8. A prefix from Gr. / in, meaning in; as, encephalon, entomology.
  9. See In-.