enamber

English

Etymology

From en- +‎ amber.

Verb

enamber (third-person singular simple present enambers, present participle enambering, simple past and past participle enambered)

  1. (transitive) To preserve in, or as if in, amber.
    • 2014, Linda C. Dowling, Hellenism and Homosexuality in Victorian Oxford, page 135:
      Nor is it to place Johnson within that still more famous and tragic generation of Rhymers' Club poets which Yeats was so sumptuously to enamber in literary myth.
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