verb
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to form into a bay
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to enclose in or as if in a bay
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(esp of the wind) to force (a ship, esp a sailing ship) into a bay
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Etymology
Origin of embay
Example Sentences
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A grey, shallow sea had slowly eaten away the rotten land, and the embay was formed by two low headlands hardly showing above the water at high tide.
From The Untilled Field by George (George Augustus) Moore
Then when he hath both plaid, and fed his fill, 205 In the warme sunne he doth himselfe embay*, And there him rests in riotous suffisaunce Of all his gladfulnes and kingly ioyaunce.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
The softened season all the landscape charms; Those hills, my native village that embay, 20In waves of dreamier purple roll away, And floating in mirage seem all the glimmering farms.
From The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations by James Russell Lowell
The pent-up emotion had swollen and swollen inside the young thing till the dam could no longer embay it.
From Desperate Remedies by Thomas Hardy
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