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† emˈbarren, v. Obs. or arch.
[f. en- + barren.]
trans. To make or render barren, unfertile, unproductive. lit. and fig.
1627Feltham Resolves ii. ix, The Ashes from..Vesuvius..embarren all the fields about it. Ibid. i. xviii, Like salt marshes that lye low..[the poor] are..embarrened with a fretting care. 1662Fuller Worthies (1840) I. 546 The most generous and vigorous land will in time be embarrened. 1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 364 Like to Java's drear waste they embarren the heart. |