engrooveingroovev.
/ɛnˈɡruːv//ɪnˈɡruːv/ transitive.
a. To work (something) into a groove.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > work into a groove
engroove1842
1842 Ld. Tennyson Love thou thy Land in Poems (new ed.) I. 226 Let the change which comes be free To ingroove itself with that, which flies.
b. To form a groove in.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > form a recess in [verb (transitive)] > form (a groove) > make grooves in
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1880 R. D. Blackmore Mary Anerley II. iii. 39 A narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water.
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v.1842- get away with it
- get away with murder
- get away with you
- get back
- get back at
- get back in one's box
- get back in your box
- get back into one's box
- get back now less commonly on
- get back to
- get back to the world
- get back up
- get bang to rights
- get barrelled
- get beans
- get beered up
- get before
- get beforehand
- get behind me, satan
- get bent
- get big air
- get bogged down in the weeds
- get bombed
- get bums on seats
- get busy