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استبحر

Root: بحر

Form: 10

Full Definition

استبحرX It became wide, or spacious, like the sea: it spread wide; became expanded; as also تبحّر . [See also بَحُرَ.]
2 He (a poet, A, K, and a خَطِيب, [i. e. a speaker, an orator, or the like,] A) expatiated in speech; was, or became, diffuse therein.
3 See also 5, in two places.
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