Definition of "ensconces" [ensconces]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of ensconce. (verb)

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• "October 2: Reynolds ensconces himself in children, refuses to ask children to leave conference room, fields press questions about a congressional man-boy-love sex scandal."
• "The bill ensconces a disastrously wasteful system - or patchwork of systems - in law."
• "Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away (1972), [15] Oe draws the portrait of a delusional father dying of bladder cancer, a pseudo-Emperor who ensconces himself in a barber's chair in the family storehouse and plots to bomb the Imperial Palace with his little son-soldier on August 16, the day after the Emperor's momentous announcement."