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ensconced

/en-skonst/US // ɛnˈskɒnst //

安居于此,安居乐业,安居,盘踞

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : settled securely or snugly: The old house still has its original, elaborately ensconced fuse box, with an oak frame, decorative wrought-iron bosses, and a clear glass panel.The only people hurt by education reform are teachers who aren't up to snuff and ensconced administrators who can’t justify their existence.
    • : sheltered or hidden: Sieges of fortified positions have been used since time immemorial to starve, demoralize, and physically weaken the ensconced combatants.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbhide; tuck away
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Examples

  • Before long the pair are ensconced in his hotel room, doing the horizontal hula.

  • There may be comfort and reassurance in being ensconced with like-minded relatives, or simply in keeping to cherished traditions.

  • The Dodgers were ensconced in a hotel about 20 minutes from Globe Life Field.

  • There’s no obvious reason for Barrett or any other Supreme Court justice to care about public opinion once they’re safely ensconced on the court.

  • You ensconce yourself in the familiar darkness of the theater, though not in your usual seat, which has been booked by someone else.

  • Contempt for the middle class is often barely concealed among those most comfortably ensconced in the emerging class order.

  • But Big Brother contestants, already ensconced in the house for two months, were almost entirely in the dark.

  • Legendary country radio DJ and songwriter Gerry House has been ensconced in the Nashville scene since 1975.

  • Tell that to the nearby pandas, happily ensconced with their bamboo, magnificently ignoring everything.

  • The Collector is forever ensconced in the pantheon of psychopathic core texts.

  • Lamb went back into the main lobby and ensconced himself behind a morning paper.

  • Thanks to the solitude where this house was ensconced in, the period necessary for the healing of the child ran peacefully by.

  • Here he ensconced himself, and peeped through the loophole in the direction of the rider's approach.

  • Thus, by the time the deluge was fairly upon us, we were quite snugly ensconced.

  • He climbed the same ascent, leaped the canyon, and ensconced himself on the further side.