embay
[ em-bey ]
/ ɛmˈbeɪ /
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verb (used with object)
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Example sentences from the Web for embay
An inspection of the barriers shows that they were incompetent to embay the ice: they are scarred and fluted from bottom to top.
Hours of Exercise in the Alps|John TyndallHe was now at that point where the Cabo de la Cruz on the south and this archipelago in the northwest embay a broad gulf.
The pent-up emotion had swollen and swollen inside the young thing till the dam could no longer embay it.
Desperate Remedies|Thomas Hardy
British Dictionary definitions for embay
embay
/ (ɪmˈbeɪ) /
verb (tr; usually passive)
to form into a bay
to enclose in or as if in a bay
(esp of the wind) to force (a ship, esp a sailing ship) into a bay
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