embay

[ em-bey ]

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose in or as if in a bay; surround or envelop.
2. to form into a bay.

embay

/ ɪmˈbeɪ /

verb

1. to form into a bay
2. to enclose in or as if in a bay
3. (esp of the wind) to force (a ship, esp a sailing ship) into a bay

Other Words From

• unem·bayed adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of embay¹

First recorded in 1575–85; em- ¹ + bay ¹

Example Sentences

An inspection of the barriers shows that they were incompetent to embay the ice: they are scarred and fluted from bottom to top.

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He was now at that point where the Cabo de la Cruz on the south and this archipelago in the northwest embay a broad gulf.

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The pent-up emotion had swollen and swollen inside the young thing till the dam could no longer embay it.

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