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embracesverbpresent tense third-person singular of embrace to put one's arms around and press tightlyupon being finally reunited, the overjoyed father embraced his son bear-hugs, clasps, crushes, enclasps, enfolds, grasps, hugs, strains clamps, clings, cradles, grabs, grips, holdsbosoms, embosoms, encircles, entwines, envelops, enwindsfolds, locks, twines, wrapscuddles, fondles, nestles, nuzzles, pats, pets, snuggles, strokes to surround or cover closelythe stone walls that embrace the monastery serve to symbolize its function as a retreat from an unquiet world bosoms, bowers, circumfuses, cocoons, embosoms, embowers, encloses(also incloses), encompasses, enfolds, enshrouds, enswathes, envelops, enwraps, invests, involves, laps, mantles, muffles, shrouds, swathes, veils, wraps curtains, drapesembeds(also imbeds), encasesswaddlesblankets, overlays, overspreadscamouflages, cloaks, disguises, maskscircles, encircles, enlaces, enwinds bares, denudes, exposes, strips 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 adopts, borrows, espouses, takes on, takes up domesticates, naturalizesappropriates, arrogates, takes over, usurpsabsorbs, assimilates, incorporates, quotescherishes, prizes, treasurescultivates, follows, heeds, honorsuses, utilizesbrings up, fosters, nurtures, raises, rearsaffects, assumes, copies, imitates, pretends, puts on, simulates picks up on abandons, forsakes, gives up, relinquishes, surrendersabjures, abnegates, disownsrejects, renounces, repudiates, spurnsdiscards, jettisons, junks, throws away, throws out to receive or accept gladly or readilythe exchange student was gratified to be so quickly embraced by people of the small rural community drinks (in), eats (up), laps (up), welcomes adopts, espouses, takes upgreets, hailsenjoys, likes, preferscherry-picks, chooses, culls, decides (on), elects, handpicks, names, opts (for), picks, selects, singles (out), takes balks (at), declines, passes up, refuses, rejects, spurns, throws over, turns downdemurs (to), objects (to) to have as part of a wholea course in social studies can embrace everything from sociology to civics and economics carries, comprehends, contains, encompasses, entails, includes, involves, numbers, subsumes, takes in comprises, consists (of)bracketshas, holds, owns, possessesadmits, receivescomposes, constitutes, forms, makesassimilates, embodies, incorporates, integrates excludes, leaves (out), misses out(British), omits bans, bars, debars, precludes, prevents, prohibitsdenies, refuses, rejectseliminates, excepts, rules outloses, mislays, misplaces to form a circle arounda sleepy village embraced by low hills circles, compasses, encircles, encloses(also incloses), encompasses, environs, girdles, girds, rings, surrounds, wreathes circumscribes, closes in, cordons (off), fences (in), hems (in), wallsbesets, besieges, entrenches(also intrenches), invests, swarms |