Definition of "en-" []

• To put into or onto: encapsulate. (prefix)
• To go into or onto: enplane. (prefix)
• To cover or provide with: enrobe. (prefix)
• To cause to be: endear. (prefix)
• Thoroughly. Used often as an intensive: entangle. (prefix)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In future corporate naming, en- is very likely to be avoided as a prefix, and the suffix -on is off."
• "He's shown to a satin-draped bedroom and a sumptuous en- suite bathroom with a free-standing oval tub."
• "Obama and his liberal cohorts like to bemoan the fact that the United States is the only industrialized nation that doesn’t en- sure health care for every single citizen."