embraceverb
uk/ɪmˈbreɪs/us/ɪmˈbreɪs/embrace verb (ACCEPT)
C1 [ T ] formal to accept something enthusiastically:
This was an opportunity that he would embrace.
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- We are always eager to embrace the latest technology.
- Corporate America quickly embraced the Web as a new vehicle for advertising.
- This was in the days before she embraced religion.
- After meeting Claude Monet in 1887 he embraced and promoted the Impressionist style.
- Dole has long embraced the concept.
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Accepting & agreeing
- accept
- accredited
- assent
- be ruled by sb idiom
- buy-in
- conclude
- countenance
- court
- gauntlet
- leap
- listen to reason idiom
- middle ground
- mustn't grumble idiom
- pounce
- reach
- settlement
- signatory
- swallow
- take sb up on sth
- unquestioning
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embrace verb (HOLD)
C2 [ I or T ] literary to hold someone tightly with both arms to express love, liking, or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving someone:
She saw them embrace on the station platform.
He leaned over to embrace the child.
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Showing affection
- affectionate
- bear hug
- canoodle
- caress
- chuck
- chuck sb under the chin idiom
- cuddle up
- cuddly
- demonstrative
- fall into sb's arms idiom
- fondle
- gather
- hold
- kiss
- man hug
- mwah
- nurse
- nuzzle
- smack
- touchy-feely
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embrace verb (INCLUDE)
C1 [ T ] formal to include something, often as one of a number of things:
Linguistics embraces a diverse range of subjects such as phonetics and stylistics.
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Including and containing
- (right) down to idiom
- assimilate
- build sth in/into sth
- built-in
- cast
- cast your net wide idiom
- catholic
- extend
- factor
- factor sth in
- figure
- forget
- inbuilt
- incl
- pack
- package
- plug (sth/sb) into sth
- rich
- subsume
- throw sth in
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embracenoun [ C ]
uk/ɪmˈbreɪs/us/ɪmˈbreɪs/C2 the act of holding someone tightly with both arms to express love, liking, or sympathy, or when greeting or leaving someone:
She greeted me with a warm embrace.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Showing affection
- affectionate
- bear hug
- canoodle
- caress
- chuck
- chuck sb under the chin idiom
- cuddle up
- cuddly
- demonstrative
- fall into sb's arms idiom
- fondle
- gather
- hold
- kiss
- man hug
- mwah
- nurse
- nuzzle
- smack
- touchy-feely
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