embay

[ em-bey ]

/ ɛmˈbeɪ /

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verb (used with object)

to enclose in or as if in a bay; surround or envelop.

to form into a bay.

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Origin of embay

First recorded in 1575–85; em-¹ + bay¹

OTHER WORDS FROM embay

un·em·bayed, adjective

Words nearby embay

embassage, embassy, embattle, embattled, embattlement, embay, embayment, Embden, Embden-Meyerhof pathway, embed, embedded

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How to use embay in a sentence

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 Tyndall
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.
Christopher Columbus and How He Received and Imparted the Spirit of Discovery|Justin Winsor
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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