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ENSILE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they ensile ... he / she / it ensiles
Past simple: ensiled
Past participle: ensiled
-ing form: ensiling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Store in a silo
Example:
ensile fodder for the cows
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "ensile" is one way to...):
store (find a place for and put away for storage)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
ensilage (fodder harvested while green and kept succulent by partial fermentation as in a silo)
