emboss
verb (used with object)
to raise or represent (surface designs) in relief.
had embossed
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past perfectof emboss.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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"Yes," I agreed; but it was not at the message I was looking; it was at the sheet upon which it was written—a sheet which had embossed at the top the words "S. S. Umbria."
From That Affair at Elizabeth by Burton Egbert Stevenson
He had felt the blush of shame, yet he had remembered, and white anger had embossed the dull scars; it was impossible that he should forget.
From A Splendid Hazard by Harold MacGrath
The similar boxes later made in England usually had embossed ornamentation.
From The Social History of Smoking by George Latimer Apperson
