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embracedverbpast tense of embrace to put one's arms around and press tightlyupon being finally reunited, the overjoyed father embraced his son bear-hugged, clasped, crushed, enclasped, enfolded, grasped, hugged, strained clamped, clung, cradled, grabbed, gripped, heldbosomed, embosomed, encircled, entwined, enveloped, enwoundfolded, locked, twined, wrappedcuddled, fondled, nestled, nuzzled, patted, petted, snuggled, stroked to surround or cover closelythe stone walls that embrace the monastery serve to symbolize its function as a retreat from an unquiet world bosomed, bowered, circumfused, cocooned, embosomed, embowered, enclosed(also inclosed), encompassed, enfolded, enshrouded, enswathed, enveloped, enwrapped, invested, involved, lapped, mantled, muffled, shrouded, swathed, veiled, wrapped curtained, drapedembedded(also imbedded), encasedswaddledblanketed, overlaid, overspreadcamouflaged, cloaked, disguised, maskedcircled, encircled, enlaced, enwound bared, denuded, exposed, stripped(also stript) 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 adopted, borrowed, espoused, took on, took up domesticated, naturalizedappropriated, arrogated, took over, usurpedabsorbed, assimilated, incorporated, quotedcherished, prized, treasuredcultivated, followed, heeded, honoredused, utilizedbrought up, fostered, nurtured, raised, rearedaffected, assumed, copied, imitated, pretended, put on, simulated picked up on abandoned, forsook, gave up, relinquished, surrenderedabjured, abnegated, disownedrejected, renounced, repudiated, spurneddiscarded, jettisoned, junked, threw away, threw out to receive or accept gladly or readilythe exchange student was gratified to be so quickly embraced by people of the small rural community ate (up), drank (in), lapped (up), welcomed adopted, espoused, took upgreeted, hailedenjoyed, liked, preferredcherry-picked, chose, culled, decided (on), elected, handpicked, named, opted (for), picked, selected, singled (out), took balked (at), declined, passed up, refused, rejected, spurned, threw over, turned downdemurred (to), objected (to) to have as part of a wholea course in social studies can embrace everything from sociology to civics and economics carried, comprehended, contained, encompassed, entailed, included, involved, numbered, subsumed, took in comprised, consisted (of)bracketedhad, held, owned, possessedadmitted, receivedcomposed, constituted, formed, madeassimilated, embodied, incorporated, integrated excluded, left (out), missed out(British), omitted banned, barred, debarred, precluded, prevented, prohibiteddenied, refused, rejectedeliminated, excepted, ruled outlost, mislaid, misplaced to form a circle arounda sleepy village embraced by low hills circled, compassed, encircled, enclosed(also inclosed), encompassed, environed, girded(or girt), girdled, ringed, surrounded, wreathed circumscribed, closed in, cordoned (off), fenced (in), hemmed (in), walledbeset, besieged, entrenched(also intrenched), invested, swarmed |