Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See embase.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete See embase.

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Examples

  • We have got to embace what ever it takes to make the changes we must have.

    Ferraro suggests she may not vote for Obama 2008

  • Obama's embrace of this FISA Bill is not conservative precisely because conservatives do not usually like government control or Big Bother looking over their shoulders so would have no reason to embace wiretapping, and in this Rove and Bush tried to rewrite the book on conservative or call it neo-conservative think.

    Vote On FISA Delayed Until July 2009

  • I am beginning to see the Arab world's embace of political Islam as less a rejection of western modernity than a search for something more wholesome than Madison Avenue or Washington currently offer.

    Aaron Freeman: Hamas and I 2008

  • "Jesus would say to embrace all life and even embace those that choose to have an abortion."

    GJSentinel - Latest News Headlines 2009

  • It's time is coming, so be prepared to embace, and enjoy them.

    Streetsblog New York City 2009

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