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Synonyms for embrace
ɛmˈbreɪsem·brace
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
embrace
To caress is less than to embrace; more dignified and less familiar than to fondle. A visitor caresses a friend's child; a mother fondles her babe. Fondling is always by touch; caressing may be also by words, or other tender and pleasing attentions.
See synonyms for AFFRONT.
Synonyms:
caress, coddle, court, flatter, fondle, kiss, pamper, petPreposition:
Caressed by or with the hand; caressed by admirers, at court.
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Princeton's WordNet
embrace, embracing, embracementnoun
the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)
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embracement, bosom, embracingembracenoun
the state of taking in or encircling
"an island in the embrace of the sea"
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embracement, bosom, embracingembrace, bosomverb
a close affectionate and protective acceptance
"his willing embrace of new ideas"; "in the bosom of the family"
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heart, bosom, boob, knocker, embracement, tit, embracing, titty, breastembrace, encompass, comprehend, coververb
include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory
"This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group"
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wrap up, compass, get over, hug, insure, plow, espouse, enshroud, dig, compensate, breed, encompass, shroud, continue, sweep up, treat, hatch, adopt, report, extend, cut across, brood, squeeze, deal, grasp, incubate, underwrite, overcompensate, address, spread over, hide, get the picture, traverse, apprehend, pass over, bosom, comprehend, handle, perceive, overlay, cover, savvy, cross, cut through, grok, get across, cover up, trackembrace, hug, bosom, squeezeverb
squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness
"Hug me, please"; "They embraced"; "He hugged her close to him"
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hug, twitch, espouse, rack, pressure, encompass, thrust, press, gouge, sweep up, adopt, force, shove, twinge, compress, tweet, contract, compact, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, bosom, pinch, wring, hale, mash, coerce, comprehend, cover, wedge, squelch, constrict, crushespouse, embrace, adopt, sweep upverb
take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
"She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"
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adopt, hook up with, acquire, marry, sweep, cover, get hitched with, dramatize, wed, hug, take up, comprehend, assume, get married, embroil, take in, encompass, follow, squeeze, sweep up, conjoin, bosom, take, take over, dramatise, drag in, borrow, espouse, take on, drag, tangle
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How to use embrace in a sentence?
We want our students, basically, to embrace diversity, these are the Facebook people.
He felt there was a need for a law for people with disabilities to embrace hunting, he cared about it because I cared about it.
But pain... seems to me an insufficient reason not to embrace life. Being dead is quite painless. Pain, like time, is going to come on regardless. Question is, what glorious moments can you win from life in addition to the pain
If you are foolish enough to break into someone’s home, you can expect to be shot in Polk County, it’s more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone. Such full-throated embrace of the Second Amendment as a crime-fighting tool isn't confined to red states like Florida. I want as many law-abiding citizens to arm themselves in Polk County as we can get. - Milwaukee County Sheriff Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke One California police chief is backing teachers in his district packing heat. Detroit Police Chief James Craig has been a leader in urging Detroit Police Chief James Craig community to arm Detroit Police. A Maryland sheriff is working with the state’s general assembly to try to make it easier for citizens to obtain handgun permits. In the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence’s most recent ranking of states with the strongest gun laws, California( 1), Maryland( 4) and Michigan( 15) ranked near the top of the pack. Some gun rights advocates say terror attacks at home and abroad have contributed to a change in attitudes about gun ownership among community members and authorities, even in locales historically hostile towards the Second Amendment.
There globalization of trade, knowledge, innovation, industrialization and entrepreneurial culture is increasing at a rapid rate and the net result is more distribution of wealth and power. A new world order is imminent. The countries that succeed will be those with better socioeconomic policies, more cash, natural resources and creativity. The US can embrace this change and compete or we can resist it and lose.
Translations for embrace
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- omhelsAfrikaans
- تعانق, احتضنArabic
- прегръдка, прегръщамBulgarian
- abraçar, abraçadaCatalan, Valencian
- obejmout, objetíCzech
- Umarmung, umarmen, annehmenGerman
- ασπάζομαιGreek
- abrazo, abrazarSpanish
- در آغوش گرفتن, پذیرفتنPersian
- omaksua, halata, syleilläFinnish
- embrasser, étreindre, embrassade, embrassement, accolade, étreinteFrench
- cuachIrish
- ioma-ghlacadh, ioma-ghlacScottish Gaelic
- आलिंगनHindi
- olelésHungarian
- փարվելArmenian
- merangkulIndonesian
- לְחַבֵּקHebrew
- 抱くJapanese
- ეხუტება, ჩახუტებაGeorgian
- 포옹Korean
- complexus, amplecti,, amplectorLatin
- knuffelen, omhelzen, knuffel, omarming, omhelzing, omarmenDutch
- objęcie, obejmować, uścisk, uściskać, objąćPolish
- abraço, abraçarPortuguese
- marq'ayQuechua
- îmbrățișare, îmbrățișaRomanian
- объя́тие, обнима́ть, обня́ть, объя́тияRussian
- omfamna, kram, omfamning, kramaSwedish
- ఆలింగనముTelugu
- โอบกอดThai
- sarılmakTurkish
- گلے لگاناUrdu
- ôm hônVietnamese
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