embus

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English

Etymology

em- +‎ bus. Coined following the mass requisition by the British Army of London buses as troop carriers in World War I.

Pronunciation

Verb

embus (third-person singular simple present embuss, present participle es, simple past and past participle embused)

  1. to put (troops) onto a bus
  2. to board a bus

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Anagrams


Estonian

Etymology

From embama +‎ -us.

Noun

embus (genitive embuse, partitive embust)

  1. hug

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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