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  • verb intransitive, obsolete To go around.
  • verb transitive, obsolete To go about; encompass; encircle; surround.

Etymologies

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From Middle English umbegon, from Old English ymbgān ("to go around, go about, surround"), from Proto-Germanic *umbi (“around”), *gānan (“to go”), equivalent to umbe- +‎ go.

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