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Language: Old French
Origin: Latin in-, from in 'in'

en-

 prefix
     
en- [in verbs]
1XX to make someone or something be in a particular state or have a particular quality:
enlarge (=make something bigger)
endanger (=put someone in danger)
2XX to go completely around something, or include all of it:
encircle (=surround everything)
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