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Environ vs Enviro - What's the difference?

environ | enviro |

As a verb environ

is to surround; to encircle.

As a noun enviro is

(informal) an ecofreak.

environ

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To surround; to encircle.
  • * 1673 , ”:
    • I did but prompt the age to quit their cloggs
    By the known rules of antient libertie,
    When strait a barbarous noise environs me
    Of Owles and Cuckoes, Asses, Apes and Doggs.
  • * Spenser
    • Dwelling in a pleasant glade, / With mountains round about environed .
  • * Shakespeare
    • Environed he was with many foes.
  • * John Donne
    • Environ me with darkness whilst I write.

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    * environment

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    enviro

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) An ecofreak.
  • * 2006 , John Berlau, Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health! , page 162,
    • In the late 1980s and early 1990s, enviros cooked up a scheme to prevent nearly any tree from being cut down in the Pacific Northwest.
  • * 2010 , Craig Collins, Toxic Loopholes: Failures and Future Prospects for Environmental Law , page 9,
    • Indeed, this dwindling number of agency “enviros'” has been the EPA's conscience over the years. William Sanjour was one of these endangered species of ' enviros who worked tirelessly to compel the EPA to reform itself and fulfill its mission.
  • * 2011 , Gary Jason, Dangerous Thoughts , unnumbered page,
    • The book became one of the enviros ’ bibles, and they managed to convince the EPA to ban the use of DDT in the United States in 1972.

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