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embraceverb to put one's arms around and press tightlyupon being finally reunited, the overjoyed father embraced his son bear-hug, clasp, crush, enclasp, enfold, grasp, hug, strain clamp, cling, cradle, grab, grip, holdbosom, embosom, encircle, entwine, envelop, enwindfold, lock, twine, wrapcuddle, fondle, nestle, nuzzle, pat, pet, snuggle, stroke to surround or cover closelythe stone walls that embrace the monastery serve to symbolize its function as a retreat from an unquiet world bosom, bower, circumfuse, cocoon, embosom, embower, enclose(also inclose), encompass, enfold, enshroud, enswathe, envelop, enwrap, invest, involve, lap, mantle, muffle, shroud, swathe, veil, wrap curtain, drapeembed(also imbed), encaseswaddleblanket, overlay, overspreadcamouflage, cloak, disguise, maskcircle, encircle, enlace, enwind bare, denude, expose, strip to take for one's own use (something originated by another)rap music came to be embraced by people who were far removed from the places where it originated adopt, borrow, espouse, take on, take up domesticate, naturalizeappropriate, arrogate, take over, usurpabsorb, assimilate, incorporate, quotecherish, prize, treasurecultivate, follow, heed, honoruse, utilizebring up, foster, nurture, raise, rearaffect, assume, copy, imitate, pretend, put on, simulate pick up on abandon, forsake, give up, relinquish, surrenderabjure, abnegate, disownreject, renounce, repudiate, spurndiscard, jettison, junk, throw away, throw out to receive or accept gladly or readilythe exchange student was gratified to be so quickly embraced by people of the small rural community drink (in), eat (up), lap (up), welcome adopt, espouse, take upgreet, hailenjoy, like, prefercherry-pick, choose, cull, decide (on), elect, handpick, name, opt (for), pick, select, single (out), take balk (at), decline, pass up, refuse, reject, spurn, throw over, turn downdemur (to), object (to) to have as part of a wholea course in social studies can embrace everything from sociology to civics and economics carry, comprehend, contain, encompass, entail, include, involve, number, subsume, take in comprise, consist (of)brackethave, hold, own, possessadmit, receivecompose, constitute, form, makeassimilate, embody, incorporate, integrate exclude, leave (out), miss out(British), omit ban, bar, debar, preclude, prevent, prohibitdeny, refuse, rejecteliminate, except, rule outlose, mislay, misplace to form a circle arounda sleepy village embraced by low hills circle, compass, encircle, enclose(also inclose), encompass, environ, gird, girdle, ring, surround, wreathe circumscribe, close in, cordon (off), fence (in), hem (in), wallbeset, besiege, entrench(also intrench), invest, swarm adopt, embrace, espouse mean to take an opinion, policy, or practice as one's own.adopt implies accepting something created by another or foreign to one's nature.forced to adopt new policies embrace implies a ready or happy acceptance.embraced the customs of their new homeland espouse adds an implication of close attachment to a cause and a sharing of its fortunes.espoused the cause of women's rights in the 14th century |