Ensconce

Definition: Ensconce

Ensconce

Verb

1. Fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "ensconce" was first used: 1590. (references)

Note: Ensconce \En*sconce"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Ensconced; Imperative present participle Ensconcing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Ensconce

Concealment

Cover, screen, cloak, veil, shroud; cover up one's tracks; screen from sight, screen from observation; drawing the veil; draw the curtain, close the curtain; curtain, shade, eclipse, throw a view over; be cloud, be mask; mask, disguise; ensconce, muffle, smother; befog; whisper.

Safety

Make safe, render safe; Adjective:; protect; take care of; (care); preserve; cover, screen, shelter, shroud, flank, ward; guard; (defend); secure; (restrain); entrench, intrench, fence round; (circumscribe); house, nestle, ensconce; take charge of.

Crosswords: Ensconce

Expression using "ensconce": ensconce oneself. Additional references.

Albanian

strehohem (ensconce oneself, Harbor, harbour, nestle), rehatohem (be appeased, curl up, nestle, sit back). (various references)

Arabic 

‏إستكان (ensconce oneself, nuzzle, refresh), ‏إستراح (breathe, ensconce oneself, hit the hay, lighten, recuperate, refresh, repose, rest, set at rest, stand at ease, subside). (various references)

Bulgarian 

закътвам (shelter, tuck), поставям на сигурно място. (various references)

Czech

uložit (bestow, collocate, deposit, house, impose, inflict, input, keep, land with, pack off, place, put to bed, save, seat, Stow). (various references)

French

bien se caler. (various references)

German

sich niederlassen (alight, establish oneself, establishing, lie down, light, perch, roost, set up in business, set up shop, settle, settle down, sit down), sich häuslich niederlassen. (various references)

Greek 

θέτω σε ασφάλεια. (various references)

Hungarian

elrejt (conceal, disguise, hid, hidden, hide, hide away, obscure, secrete, smother, to cache, to conceal, to disguise, to eloign, to enshroud, to hide, to recess, to screen, to secrete, to shelter, to smother up, to squirrel away, to stash, vail). (various references)

Indonesian

menyembunyikan (conceal, dissemble, hide, withhold). (various references)

Italian

nascondersi (abscond, burrow, hide, hide oneself, lurk, skulk). (various references)

Pig Latin

ensconceay

Portuguese

esconder (bescreen, cache, conceal, dissemble, dodge, ensign, hide, hold back, hugger mugger, occult, pocket, screen, secrete, stash, suppress, tuck), ensanguentado (bloody, gory), meter-se (go). (various references)

Romanian

ascunde (cloak, conceal, Cork, cover, curtain, cushion, disguise, dissemble, enwrap, hide, hood, hugger mugger, keep away, keep back, mask, put away, put by, screen, secrete, shroud, smooth, tuck, tuck away, veil, wrap), aşeza într-un loc sigur. (various references)

Russian 

укрываться, укрывать (embower, harbour, mantle, screen, secrete, sheltered, sheltering). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

smestiti udobno. (various references)

Spanish

instalarse en (induct, pitch), hallarse (be, be found, be located, find oneself, lie, locate). (various references)

Swedish

sätta i säkerhet, gömma (cache, conceal, hide, hiding, hiding place, secrete, shelter, stash), förskansa (entrench). (various references)

Thai

เพื่อความปลอ�"� ัย (คำโบรา�"), ทำตัวตามสบาย. (various references)

Turkish

yerleştirmek (accommodate, deposit, domicil, domicile, draw out, embed, emplace, enchase, engraft, entrench, establish, fix, indwell, ingraft, inject, install, lay, locate, nestle, perch, pitch, place, posit, position, post, put, put in, quarter, reset, seat, set, set up, settle, shake down, sink, site, situate, slot, spot, Square, station, Stow). (various references)

Ukranian 

сховатися (decamp, elope, refuge). (various references)

schans. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "ensconce": ensconced, ensconces. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Ensconce" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enconce, Enesco, enscone, ensconse, enscounce, ensonce, escence, esconce, mensonge, unscenic. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: nonces, sconce.

-3 letters: cense, cones, conns, cosec, nenes, neons, nonce, nones, onces, scene, scone, secco.

-4 letters: cees, cone, conn, cons, eons, nene, neon, noes, none, nose, once, ones, seen, sene, sone.

-5 letters: cee, con, cos, ens, eon, nee, nos, oes, one, ons, ose, sec, see, sen, son.

+1 letter: ensconced, ensconces.

+2 letters: concenters, condescend, connecters, conscience, innocences, nonscience, reconnects.

+3 letters: cognoscente, conciseness, concrescent, condescends, condolences, conferences, confidences, confluences, congruences, connectives, consciences, consequence, consistence, continences, conversance, conveyances, innocencies, nonsciences, omniscience, reconvinces.

+4 letters: cinquecentos, coincidences, concatenates, concealments, concentrates, concernments, concessioner, concrescence, concreteness, concurrences, condescended, conferrences, congruencies, consequences, consistences, contingences, convalescent, conveniences, conventicles, convergences, conversances, conveyancers, countenances, crescendoing, disconnected, ethnoscience, incoherences, misconnected, necromancers, necromancies, neuroscience, nonelectrics, nonsuccesses, omnisciences, overconcerns.

+5 letters: codependences, commencements, conceitedness, concelebrants, concertedness, concessioners, concisenesses, concrescences, concupiscence, concurrencies, condescending, condescension, conduciveness, confectioners, conferencings, connectedness, conservancies, consistencies, contingencies, convalescence, convalescents, conveniencies, conventiclers, convergencies, conversancies, countenancers, encroachments, ethnosciences, incompetences, incongruences, inconsecutive, inconsequence, inconsistence, incontinences, incorrectness, inflorescence, interconnects, neurosciences, recognizances, reconceptions, reconnections, reconveyances, selenocentric, unconsecrated.

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