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Määritelmät
Verbi
- To cause (something) to stick out or swell; to extrude; also, to cause (someone or something) to be covered in swellings.
- (intransitive, obsolete) Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a forest or wood.
- To enclose or suit (a person) in armour.
- To make (a design on a coin, an ornament on an object, etc.) stand out from a surface.
- (by extension, transitive, chiefly passive voice, obsolete) To drive (a hunted animal) to exhaustion by chasing it; to exhaust; hence, to make (a hunted animal) foam at the mouth due to exhaustion from being chased.
- (figurative) To enclose or surround (someone or something).
- To represent (a subject) on an object in relief; also, of a design or subject: to stand out on (an object) in relief.
- To decorate or mark (something) with a design or symbol in relief.
- (transitive, archaic) To cause (an animal's body, a person's mouth, etc.) to be covered with foam.
- To decorate (something) with bosses; to boss; hence, to decorate (something) richly.
- (transitive, obsolete) To cause (someone, their heart or soul, etc.) to become extremely fatigued; to exhaust.
- (intransitive, obsolete) Of a person: to foam at the mouth; also (figurative), to be furious, to rage.
- To cause (something) to be prominent or stand out.
- (obsolete) To make (speech, etc.) unduly bombastic or grand.
Substantiivi
- (obsolete, rare) Synonym of boss (“a knob or projection”).
Esimerkit
- The papers weren't official until the seal had been embossed on them.
- Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed / Androgeo's death.
- Exhibiting flowers in their natural colour embossed upon a purple ground.
- And as it commonly happens, that when the Stag begins to be embost, and finds his strength to faile-him, having no other remedie left him, doth yeeld and bequeath himselfe unto us that pursue him, with teares suing to us for mercie.
- in the Arabian woods embossed
- A knight her met in mighty arms embossed.
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