Synonym: accept, adopt, clasp, clutch, comprise, contain, cover, enfold, grasp, hold, hug, include, involve, press, take up. Similar words: trace, face to face, brand, brake, brand new, branch, member, resemble. Meaning: [ɪm'breɪs] n. 1. the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) 2. the state of taking in or encircling 3. a close affectionate and protective acceptance. v. 1. include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory 2. squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness 3. take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own.
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(61) What still needs doing to help you to begin to embrace this concept?
(62) Their regime will embrace education and training but also provide the affection often lacking in offenders' homes.
(63) But he grabbed her making her stumble and fall into his embrace.
(64) His embrace of popular culture extended to the movie musicals of the time, which provided lucrative employment.
(65) Even outside all these imaginings, rumor and derision held us in an unwelcome embrace.
(66) There are those who can embrace this as a sort of liberation from convention and hypocrisy.
(67) Young minds can easily assimilate and embrace all kinds of musical styles.
(68) The definition had been left somewhat vague in the legislation, though it was intended to embrace all matters relevant.
(69) Riders are sometimes slowed to a walking pace and punch the supporters who try to embrace them.
(70) One councilman said Clark was never able to embrace economic development.
(71) Jigeehuu ambled shakily over to it after our first embrace and ladled out half a pint for me in a rice bowl.
(72) Swaminathan is also encouraging rural communities to embrace new practices to improve farming.
(73) We embrace our rules and red tape to prevent bad things from happening, of course.
(74) It is in the best interests of the family to have a body to embrace and say goodbye to.
(75) He caught Nina into a tight embrace[sentencedict.com], holding her close.
(76) Whether that is a message that Oregon parents, students, and teachers will embrace enthusiastically remains to be seen.
(77) History may come to see that embrace as a gesture of fond farewell.
(78) A further piece of veracity lay in the fact that Imelda could not embrace the concept of life without a husband.
(79) Ships embrace their own scenario(sentencedict.com/embrace.html), the sea; and so do motor cars and teapots.
(80) Hated that slim body with its perfect skin which always nestled into Jacob's embrace.
(81) We do not need, then, to embrace the semantic asymmetry in order to give an account of language learning.
(82) The programme's brief is to embrace literature and architecture as well as less demanding subjects such as fashion, video and film.
(83) Automatically his arms went out in embrace, but almost as they touched there was a double flash of light.
(84) Would this in any way temper the delight with which Garnett would embrace the streak?
(85) But when he quite gently disengaged himself from her embrace she looked at him, and knew he wasn't.
(86) Religions have also often attempted to reduce all human action to stylistic embrace as an expression of cosmological pretensions.
(87) I was usually the active partner, or rather it was usually I who initiated a kiss or an embrace.
(88) Slowly but surely, the benefits of the new prosperity are spreading to embrace all parts of the province.
(89) She began to struggle free of Marco's embrace, groping around for anchorage.
(90) Neither you nor I nor most people embrace behavior change on a regular basis.