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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(151) Simultaneously they turned to face one another and a moment later they were locked in an embrace.
(152) These embrace the Benedictine, Augustinian, Franciscan and other main traditions of the religious life.
(153) Suddenly it was as though they weren't enemies at all, but locked in a passionate, warm embrace.
(154) But even the most recalcitrant could embrace one of the chesterfields or comfy cardigans.
(155) Madeleine's hands seized the pillow and held it to her in a quick embrace.
(156) Marilyn Quayle, wife of the vice president made £6,800 for Embrace the Serpent, her novel about political life in Washington.
(157) We would hold each other in an embrace, exchanging long kisses, and rock our bodies together until they overflowed.
(158) Pilade was asleep, leaving her arms free for the precious embrace she longed for.
(159) Nor did she fail to take the hint that his only reason for the embrace had been to comfort her.
(160) Most also embrace economic development and education for work as a central part of their missions.
(161) With his left arm he gave Billie a clumsy and rather inebriated embrace, and tipped his glass to Albert.
(162) They were like a needle stuck in a gramophone record, inexorably repeating embrace after embrace.
(163) The survey is divided into two simultaneous operations which embrace the surviving records of both persons and organisations.
(164) Let us embrace lions also in the same view.
(165) Caracas and Havana remain in a symbiotic embrace.
(166) The act of cuddling; a hug or embrace.
(167) When embrace her, I can feel her plump buttock.
(168) She comforted the grieving child with a tight embrace.
(169) Then they indicated a recklessness that might embrace mischief.
(170) India's newspapers embrace a profitable but questionable new sideline.
(171) Monoplane flying angels need to embrace.
(172) Im not the Styx to embrace you nine times.
(173) Both parties must embrace the end objective.
(174) Do people in your country embrace Christianity?
(175) Freddie greeted his brother with a warm embrace.
(176) He was of a vast embrace.
(177) But what does it mean to embrace your masculinity?
(178) We invite human initiates reading our materials to embrace the sacredness of all of life.
(179) Giant strangler fig tree roots embrace the crumbling Ta Prohm temple at Angkor.
(180) Be reverent before each dawning day. Embrace each hour. Seize each golden minute.