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ACCOUTRE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does accoutre mean?
• ACCOUTRE (verb)
The verb ACCOUTRE has 1 sense:
1. provide with military equipment
Familiarity information: ACCOUTRE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they accoutre ... he / she / it accoutres
Past simple: accoutred
Past participle: accoutred
-ing form: accoutring
... he / she / it accoutres Past simple: accoutred
Past participle: accoutred
-ing form: accoutring
Sense 1
Meaning:
Provide with military equipment
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
accouter; accoutre
Hypernyms (to "accoutre" is one way to...):
equip; fit; fit out; outfit (provide with (something) usually for a specific purpose)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Context examples
He accoutred me with other necessaries, all new, which I aired for twenty-four hours before I would use them.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
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