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Ungrooved vs Engrooved - What's the difference?

ungrooved | engrooved |

As an adjective ungrooved

is without a groove or grooves.

As a verb engrooved is

past tense of engroove.

ungrooved

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Without a groove or grooves.
  • Synonyms

    * grooveless

    engrooved

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (engroove)

  • engroove

    English

    Verb

  • To fit into a groove; to channel
  • :* {{quote-book
  • , year=1816 , year_published=2010 , edition=Digitized , editor= , author= , title=Encyclopaedia Perthensis , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=J. Brown , isbn= , page=668 , passage=The box i'' is engrooved into the edge of the stock ''a b , so that it may move freely ... }}
  • :* {{quote-book
  • , year=1880 , year_published=2006 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=RD Blackmore , title=Mary Anerley , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=The boy had forgotten that the moor just here was broken by a narrow glen, engrooved with sliding water. }}
  • :* {{quote-book
  • , year=1992 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Anaïs Nin , title=Incest: From a Journal of Love , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich , isbn=9780151443666 , page=25 , passage=I would like sometimes to rest, to be at peace, to choose a nook, a love, and engroove myself in it — to make a final selection. }}

    References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia Supplement, Vol. XI, Page 0427, engroove