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🌿 A thorny shrub 🌱 To cover with bushes
to bramble

to bramble

1 8.8
To become covered in thorny bushes and grow tangled
  • verb
  • /ˈbræmbl/
translation icon : enredarse
  • As if to underscore his words, a couple of Spencers barked, making all the rebels flatten out against the brambled ground.

Examples

  • The path was so narrow that we had to bramble our way through the sharp vines and thorns.

  • Her tail and legs were feathery, and she had tangles of hair on her drooping ears that caught every burr and bramble the road offered.

    Fiction book (1993)

  • While hiking, I accidentally brambled myself in the thorny bushes along the trail.

  • As the children played outside, they brambled themselves among the dense bushes in the garden.

Compounds

bramble bush
1 5.7

A wild prickly bush with blackberries you can eat

stone bramble
  • UK
9.5

A low spreading bush with red berries like a raspberry and prickly stems

How Entangled

to ensnare
13 7.7
to bramble
1 8.8
to catch
∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

bramble infinitive
brambled past
brambled past participle
brambling present participle
brambles third person singular

Etymology

Bramble as a verb comes from the noun bramble and meant 'to become covered with thorny bushes'. So to bramble is to grow wild and become full of thorns.