Definition of embracing

"embracing" in the noun sense

1. embrace, embracing, embracement

the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)

"embracing" in the verb sense

1. embrace, encompass, comprehend, cover

include in scope include as part of something broader have as one's sphere or territory

"This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"

"this should cover everyone in the group"

2. embrace, hug, bosom, squeeze

hold (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness

"Hug me, please"

"They embraced"

"He hugged her close to him"

3. espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up

take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

"She embraced Catholicism"

"They adopted the Jewish faith"

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Quotations for embracing

Most women caress sin before embracing penitence. [ Fontanelle ]

Wit, bright, rapid, and blasting as the lightning, flashes, strikes, and vanishes in an instant; humour, warm and all-embracing as the sunshine, bathes its object in a genial and abiding light. [ Whipple ]

Often a nosegay of wild flowers, which was to us, as village children, a grove of pleasure, has in after years of manhood, and in the town, given us by its old perfume, an indescribable transport back into godlike childhood; and how, like a flower goddess, it has raised us into the first embracing Aurora clouds of our first dim feelings! [ Richter ]

Who is there who has not experienced that often a nosegay of wild flowers, which was to us as village children a grove of pleasure, has in after years of manhood, and in the town, given us. by its old perfume an indescribable transport back into godlike childhood; and how, like a flower-goddess, it has raised us into the first embracing Aurora-clouds of our first dim feelings? [ Richter ]

That great mystery of time, were there no other; the illimitable, silent never-resting thing called time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all-embracing oceantide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are and then are not - this is for ever very literally a miracle, a thing to strike us dumb; for we have no word to speak about it. [ Carlyle ]

embracing in Scrabble®

The word embracing is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 16

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Play In The Letters embracing:

EMBRACING
(171)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (9 words)

beaming, bearing, bracing, carbine, carmine, grimace, mangier, reaming, ribcage

 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word embracing

EMBRACING
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In embracing

EMBRACING
(171)
EMBRACING
(153)
EMBRACING
(114)
EMBRACING
(102)
GRIMACE
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CARBINE
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CARMINE
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RIBCAGE
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CARBINE
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CARBINE
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BRACING
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REAMING
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embracing in Words With Friends™

The word embracing is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 21

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Play In The Letters embracing:

EMBRACING
(279)

Seven Letter Word Alert: (9 words)

beaming, bearing, bracing, carbine, carmine, grimace, mangier, reaming, ribcage

 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word embracing

EMBRACING
(279)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In embracing

EMBRACING
(279)
EMBRACING
(174)
EMBRACING
(138)
GRIMACE
(128 = 93 + 35)
RIBCAGE
(122 = 87 + 35)
BRACING
(119 = 84 + 35)
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EMBRACING
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CAMBER
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AMEBIC
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EMBRACING
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Words containing the sequence embracing

Words that start with embracing (3 words)

Words with embracing in them (1 word)

Words that end with embracing (3 words)

Word Growth involving embracing

Shorter words in embracing

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Longer words containing embracing

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