transcription, транскрипция: [ ɪmbreɪs ]
( embraces, embracing, embraced)
1.
If you embrace someone, you put your arms around them and hold them tightly, usually in order to show your love or affection for them. You can also say that two people embrace .
Penelope came forward and embraced her sister...
At first people were sort of crying for joy and embracing each other...
He threw his arms round her and they embraced passionately.
= hug
V-RECIP : V n ( non-recip ), V n ( non-recip ), pl-n V
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Embrace is also a noun.
...a young couple locked in an embrace.
N-COUNT
2.
If you embrace a change, political system, or idea, you accept it and start supporting it or believing in it. ( FORMAL )
He embraces the new information age...
The new rules have been embraced by government watchdog organizations.
VERB : V n , V n
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Embrace is also a noun.
The marriage signalled James’s embrace of the Catholic faith.
N-SING : usu with supp
3.
If something embraces a group of people, things, or ideas, it includes them in a larger group or category. ( FORMAL )
...a theory that would embrace the whole field of human endeavour.
VERB : V n