embrace
Meaning of embrace
verb
- hold (someone) closely in one's arms, especially as a sign of affection.
Aunt Sophie embraced her warmly
the two embraced, holding each other tightly
- accept (a belief, theory, or change) willingly and enthusiastically.
besides traditional methods, artists are embracing new technology
- include or contain (something) as a constituent part.
his career embraces a number of activities—composing, playing, and acting
- an act of holding someone closely in one's arms.
they were locked in an embrace
- an act of accepting something willingly or enthusiastically.
their eager embrace of foreign influences
Middle English (in the sense ‘encircle, surround, enclose’; formerly also as imbrace ): from Old French embracer, based on Latin in- ‘in’ + bracchium ‘arm’.
Information about embrace
- The plural form of embrace is: embraces.
- Languages in which embrace is used:
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Hyphenation of embrace
em-brace
- It consists of 2 syllables and 7 chars.
- embrace is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
embrace synonyms
Meaning embracing:
Meaning bosom:
Meaning encompass:
Meaning hug:
Meaning espouse:
Meaning embrace (someone):
Meaning hold close in one's arms as a way of showing love or affection:
Meaning hold (someone) tightly:
Meaning grasp (something) tightly:
Meaning take hold of suddenly and forcibly:
Meaning grasp or seize suddenly and roughly:
Meaning snuggle up to:
Meaning touch or stroke gently or lovingly:
Meaning hold or clasp (someone) lovingly in one's arms:
Meaning hold tightly in one's arms:
Meaning form a circle around; surround:
Meaning surround or close off on all sides:
Meaning wrap up, cover, or surround completely:
Meaning kiss and cuddle amorously:
Meaning take or press (someone or something) to one's bosom; embrace:
Meaning greet (someone arriving) in a polite or friendly way:
Meaning regard favourably or with approval; welcome:
Meaning bear all or part of the weight of; hold up:
Meaning give financial, material, or moral support to:
Meaning vigorously support or defend the cause of:
Meaning comprise or contain as part of a whole:
Meaning cause to participate in an activity or situation:
Meaning be made up of (a number of things):
Meaning consist of; be made up of:
Meaning take in or contain (something) as part of a whole; include:
Meaning express the essential features of (something) succinctly:
Meaning be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling):
Meaning include or absorb (something) in something else:
Meaning an embrace, especially an amorous one:
embrace antonyms
Meaning dismiss as inadequate, unacceptable, or faulty:
Meaning deny (someone) access to a place, group, or privilege:
Translation of embrace
- French: embrasser, étreindre, étreinte, embrassement, accolade
- German: umarmen, umschlingen, umhalsen, herzen, Umarmung, Umschlingung
- Italian: abbracciare, stringere, abbraccio
- Spanish: abrazar, abrazamiento, abrazo, adoptar
- Portuguese: abraçar, abraço
Words that rhyme with embrace
Race, race, arace, harace, tessarace, Brace, bitbrace, brace, coembrace, counterbrace, demivambrace, disembrace, forebrace, gardbrace, interembrace, mainbrace, overbrace, rebrace, reembrace, rerebrace, subrace, thoroughbrace, unbrace, underbrace, upbrace, vambrace, vanbrace, vantbrace, Landrace, headrace, landrace, Liberace, horserace, prerace, tiderace, Grace, aggrace, agrace, begrace, bongrace, bowgrace, disgrace, engrace, grace, malgrace, overgrace, predisgrace, scapegrace, ungrace, wangrace
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