Word Finder - embrace

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An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug.

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An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something.

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Full acceptance (of something).

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An act of enfolding or including.

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To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.

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• fall on someone's neck

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To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.

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I wholeheartedly embrace the new legislation.

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To submit to; to undergo.

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• accept

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To encircle; to enclose, to encompass.

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• entwine
• surround

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To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.

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Natural philosophy embraces many sciences.

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To fasten on, as armour.

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To accept (someone) as a friend; to accept (someone's) help gladly.

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To attempt to influence (a court, jury, etc.) corruptly; to practise embracery.

His embrace was warm and exciting.

He was about to embrace his friend, but Nicholas avoided him.

It was time for him to embrace it.

She melted in his embrace, returning his hungry kiss.

Just embrace the moment.

For a few moments she resisted the temptation to surrender, but his embrace was electrifying and she found herself passionately returning his affection.

Embrace your difficulties, learn from them, and then take steps to change your situation.

She eagerly slid into his embrace and welcomed the warm lips that sought hers.

His chocolate gaze enveloped her in a warm embrace that left her feeling giddy.

Elisabeth broke the embrace and walked away without a word.

It was not till the 19th of January 1826 that he recorded in the private memoranda begun by him in 1820 his decision "to embrace the gift of the Spanish subject."

Instead, he should embrace his independence.

He pulled her close in an embrace, his lips warm against hers in response to her silent query.

Mary Thy Mother stopped at the foot of the Cross, but poverty mounted it with Thee and clasped Thee in her embrace unto the end; and when Thou wast dying of thirst, as a watchful spouse she prepared for Thee the gall.

Anna Mikhaylovna instantly guessed her intention and stooped to be ready to embrace the countess at the appropriate moment.

If you're lucky enough to have natural wave, embrace it with a shoulder length shag hair style.

All the same, he was the one who broke the embrace.

Turning toward him, she melted into his warm embrace.

Its industries embrace the manufacture of iron and steel goods, tanning and organ-building.

Whilst Sennar has never been held to extend westward of the White Nile, the term has often been used to embrace "the Island of Meroe," i.e.

They 're nothing more than legislators who embrace the same organized crime syndicate.

After breaking Sarah's embrace, she asked, "You love music so much, why don't you sing or play an instrument?"

An eternal moment was captured when the Father ran out to embrace his prodigal son, and his heart toward you hasn't changed.

They might even help you embrace a whirlwind of change on Sunday.

Instead of succumbing to the fear of redefining yourself, embrace the opportunity.

With some work, a person can embrace healthier emotional states that sustain drug addiction recovery.

Though she looks much different as an adult than she did on the show, she has gone on to embrace a variety of different talents and skills in her career.

The goddess look is a perfect companion for chiffon gowns, especially if they embrace the current one- shoulder toga or maxi dress trends.

Many brides opt to wear pearl necklaces, earrings, or bracelets to embrace that symbolism on their wedding day, and a pearl hair piece can coordinate their wedding hair style with their bridal jewelry.

These and similar statements favouring the doctrines of the New Testament made many Kabbalists of the highest position in the synagogue embrace the Christian faith and write elaborate books to win their Jewish brethren over to Christ.

The remains, which embrace an area of more than io,000 sq.

The history of international arbitration is dealt with in the article Peace, where treaties of general arbitration are discussed, both those which embrace all future differences thereafter to arise between the contracting parties, and also those more limited conventions which aim at the settlement of all future differences in regard to particular subjects, e.g.

The discovery of gold at Tati led President Pretorius in April 1868 to issue a proclamation extending his territories on the west and north so as to embrace the goldfield and all Efforts Bechuanaland.

Our range must embrace a much wider area - must comprise, in fact, all living matter - if we are ever to arrive at a scientific conception of what disease really means.

His well-known work, De medicina, was one of a series of treatises intended to embrace all knowledge proper for a man of the world.

Its hardware industries are important, and embrace iron rolling, the manufacture of fine wire, needles, springs and silver ornaments.

The khakan and his chieftains were captured and compelled to embrace Islam (737), and till the decay of the Mahommedan empire Khazaria with all the other countries of the Caucasus paid an annual tribute of children and of corn (737861).

A grammar school was founded in 1713, the operations of which have been extended so as to embrace a trade school (1871) for boys, and a grammar school for girls.

Anteriorly these chords embrace the oesophagus and unite with the cerebral mass which innervates the pair of eyes when present.

The industries embrace engine-building, the manufacture of railway carriages a11d plant, scientific instruments, porcelain, tobacco and cigars, lithography, jute-spinning, iron-founding, brewing and gardening.

Hippolytus's voluminous writings, which for variety of subject can be compared with those of Origen, embrace the spheres of exegesis, homiletics, apologetics and polemic, chronography and ecclesiastical law.

The homestead of any family in the state is exempt from attachment, lien or forced sale, except for taxes or purchase money, provided it has been properly recorded; but it can embrace only one dwelling house, cannot include gold or silver mines, and is limited in value to $5000 to one acre if within a town plat, to 40 acres if it is in the country and was acquired under the laws of the United States relating to mineral lands, and to 160 acres of other land in the country.

The Jagiellos, as a rule, prudently avoided committing themselves to any political system which might irritate the still distant but much-dreaded Turk, but when their dominions extended so far southwards as to embrace Moldavia, the observance of a strict neutrality became exceedingly difficult.

Iseult of Ireland lands to find the city in mourning for its lord; hastening to the bier, she lays herself down beside Tristan, and with one last embrace expires.

The object of the above sketch has been to embrace in constructive outline the ground usually covered analytically and on a far larger scale by Introductions to the New Testament, and by Histories of the New Testament Canon.

The strict application of the word to a sanctuary containing relics was extended to embrace any place of worship other than a church, and it was synonymous, therefore, with "oratory" (oratorium), especially one attached to a palace or to a private dwelling-house.

But he takes the usual advantage of this most ambiguous of terms when he extends it to embrace God, freedom, and immortality required by the moral law.

The " accolade " may etymologically refer to the embrace, accompanied by a blow with the hand, characteristic of the longer form of knighting.

Its industries embrace iron founding and enamel working.

Vegetable soils or moulds, or humus soils, contain a considerable percentage (more than 5) of humus, and embrace both the rich productive garden moulds and those known as peaty soils.