embosom
Americanverb (used with object)
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to enfold, envelop, or enclose.
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to take into or hold in the bosom; embrace.
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to cherish; foster.
verb
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to enclose or envelop, esp protectively
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to clasp to the bosom; hug
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to cherish
Etymology
Origin of embosom
Example Sentences
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Other parts are laid into floors, or wrought into wainscoting, or carved for frames of noble pictures, or fashioned into chairs that embosom the weakness of old age.
From How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune by Orison Swett Marden
Do they not embosom him in a style of grandeur worthy, if such it be, of a "City of Palaces?"
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
Some ivy, planted by Miss Moore, on the eastern side of the church promises in time to embosom it in green.
From Laicus; Or, the Experiences of a Layman in a Country Parish. by Lyman Abbott
The waters," said the King, "embosom the high hills and insolently menace heaven itself.
From The Awakening of China by W. A. P. (William Alexander Parsons) Martin
At the silence of twilight's contemplative hour, I have mused in a sorrowful mood, On the wind-shaken weeds that embosom the bower, Where the home of my forefathers stood.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829 by Various
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