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emmarble

[ih-mahr-buhl]

verb (used with object)

emmarbled, emmarbling 
  1. to represent in or adorn with marble; make like marble.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of emmarble1

First recorded in 1590–1600; em- 1 + marble
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Example Sentences

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Emmarble, em-m�r′bl, v.t. to turn to marble, to petrify.

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The whylst thou, tyrant Love, doest laugh and scorne At their complaints, making their paine thy play; 135 Whylest they lye languishing like thrals forlorne, The whyles thou doest triumph in their decay; And otherwhyles, their dying to delay, Thou doest emmarble the proud hart of her Whose love before their life they doe prefer.

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