English

Verb

embrighten ‎(third-person singular simple present embrightens, present participle embrightening, simple past and past participle embrightened)

1. (rare, chiefly literary) Brighten; vivify.

• For usage examples of this term, see Citations:embrighten.

References

1. ↑ The Oxford English Dictionary (2007) states that embrighten was formed by the simultaneous prefixing of en- and suffixing of -en, which, by definition, constitutes circumfixation.