Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To pen in; confine or inclose in a narrow place.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To shut up or inclose, as in a pen.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To shut up or
enclose , as in apen .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Gerard saw no cave, only thick and impen - etrable forest, until one of the elves picked up what appeared to be a stand of young trees and moved it.
Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000
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A rush of psi energy entered me like a succubus, stealing my breath away ur * y flesh against her flesh completed some forbidden circuit and took out all of my mind's defenses ... the impen -
Dreamfall Vinge, Joan D. 1996
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If humanity resided anywhere beyond that impen-etrable barrier of faded yellow paper, she had no idea what it might look like.
The Metrognome and Other Stories Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1990
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Atque hunc Anti - goruis, quum ei fuiflet infe! tf - limus, confervafiet, ii per luos diet licitum, quod ab nullo I'e plus adjuvari polfe intelhge - bat in his rebus, quas impen - dere jam apparebat omnibus, tmminebant enim.
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(via Joystiq), Konami has announced the US release dates for the impen ...
*Shacknews* Games 2010
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(via Joystiq), Konami has announced the US release dates for the impen ...
*Shacknews* Games 2010
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(via Joystiq), Konami has announced the US release dates for the impen ...
*Shacknews* Games 2010
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(via Joystiq), Konami has announced the US release dates for the impen ...
*Shacknews* Games 2010
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(via Joystiq), Konami has announced the US release dates for the impen ...
*Shacknews* Games 2010
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(via Joystiq), Konami has announced the US release dates for the impen ...
*Shacknews* Games 2010
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