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emboss
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?m?b?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /?m?b?s/
- Rhymes: -?s
Etymology 1
From Middle English embossen, embosen, embocen, from Old French embocer, equivalent to em- +? boss (“a lump; bump; protuberance”).
Verb
emboss (third-person singular simple present embosses, present participle embossing, simple past and past participle embossed)
- (transitive) To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.
- The papers weren't official until the seal had been embossed on them.
- (transitive) To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc.
- Then o'er the lofty gate his art emboss'd / Androgeo's death.
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Translations
Etymology 2
Perhaps from em- +? Old French bos, bois (“wood”). Compare imbosk.
Verb
emboss (third-person singular simple present embosses, present participle embossing, simple past and past participle embossed)
- (obsolete) Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
- (obsolete) To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.
- (obsolete) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
- (obsolete) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
Anagrams
- besoms
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embosser
English
Etymology
emboss +? -er
Noun
embosser (plural embossers)
- A person who or a thing which embosses
Anagrams
- besomers, emborses
French
Verb
embosser
- To emboss
- (nautical) To moor a vessel with cables from both the prow and the stern
Conjugation
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