embosom

[ em-booz-uhm, -boo-zuhm ]

verb (used with object)

1. to enfold, envelop, or enclose.
2. to take into or hold in the bosom; embrace.
3. to cherish; foster.

embosom

/ ɪmˈbʊzəm /

verb

1. to enclose or envelop, esp protectively
2. to clasp to the bosom; hug
3. to cherish

Word History and Origins

Origin of embosom¹

First recorded in 1580–90; em- ¹ + bosom

Example Sentences

To conceal; to hide from view; to embosom.

From Project Gutenberg

Embosom'd in a much more rosy Morn: The blushes of Thy all-vnblemisht mother.82 3 Kinge.

From Project Gutenberg

Embosom, em-booz′um, Imbosom, im-, v.t. to take into the bosom: to receive into the affections: to enclose or surround.

From Project Gutenberg

It may be that it is advisable to be content with a smaller proportion of timber in the Prairie States and the broad, fertile intervales which embosom most of our great rivers for at least a part of their course; but I doubt it.

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Such was the aspiration even of the American declaration of independence and the American constitution: cast-iron documents, if only the spirit of co-operative English liberty had not been there to expand, embosom, soften, or transform them.

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