ENSCONCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ensconce mean? 

• ENSCONCE (verb)
  The verb ENSCONCE has 1 sense:

1. fix firmly

  Familiarity information: ENSCONCE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENSCONCE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they ensconce    ... he / she / it ensconces   
Past simple: ensconced   
Past participle: ensconced   
-ing form: ensconcing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fix firmly

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

ensconce; settle

Context example:

He ensconced himself in the chair

Hypernyms (to "ensconce" is one way to...):

lay; place; pose; position; put; set (put into a certain place or abstract location)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody PP

 Context examples 

On reaching the top of the social pecking order, however, meerkats remain ensconced within the group.

(Breeder meerkats age faster, but their subordinates still die younger, University of Cambridge)

In the meantime Thomas Mugridge, like a drowned rat, was being dragged out from under the forecastle head where he had cravenly ensconced himself.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

And then they had called her to a sofa, where she now sat, ensconced between them, chattering alternately in French and broken English; absorbing not only the young ladies' attention, but that of Mrs. Eshton and Lady Lynn, and getting spoilt to her heart's content.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)