† embarrenv.
Obsolete or archaic.
transitive. To make or render barren, unfertile, unproductive. literal and figurative.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > wild or uncultivated land > make wild or uncultivated [verb (transitive)] > make barren or desert
barren1581
embarren1628
barrenize1652
sterilize1695
the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [verb (transitive)] > render infertile
barren1581
pill1594
disfertile1606
peel1610
embarren1628
unfructify1628
barrenize1652
mine1937
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xviii. sig. L4 Like salt marshes, that lye low;..[the poor] are..imbarren'd with a fretting care.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Glouc. 349 The most generous and vigorous land, will in time be imbarrened.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 197 The Ashes from..Vesuvius..embarren all the fields about it.
1807 Salmagundi 31 Dec. 403 Like to Java's drear waste they embarren the heart.
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