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# embrace

«embrace» in Mova's school dictionary: **To put your arms around someone to show love or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

verb (embrace, embraces, embraced, embracing); noun (an embrace, embraces)

### meaning for a pupil

1) To put your arms around someone to show love or friendship; to hug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#m1)

2) (noun) A hug. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#m2)

3) To accept a new idea, change or opportunity happily and with enthusiasm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#m3)

4) (formal) To include or contain: «The course embraces many subjects.» [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, characters embrace when they meet again or say goodbye. In everyday and school talk, «embrace a challenge» or «embrace change» means welcome it. In formal language it means include. Phrases: «a warm embrace», «embrace the challenge», «embrace new ideas», «embrace each other».

### examples

- The friends embraced when they met at the airport. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#x1)
- She gave her grandad a long embrace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#x2)
- Our school embraced the idea of a vegetable garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#x3)
- Embrace the challenge and try your best. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#x4)
- The mother held the baby in a warm embrace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#x5)
- (formal) The topic embraces both history and geography. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#x6)
- I simply cannot wait to embrace you! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/#x7)

### note

More formal than «hug». Past «embraced». You embrace someone (no «with»). It can mean to welcome ideas, not just to hug.

### In the corpora

- [And Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck, and kissed him; and they wept.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1037/)
- [And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/GEN.1586/)
- [Extol her, and she will exalt thee; she will bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.98/)
- [Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.137/)
- [They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/JOB.628/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «embrace» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/embrace/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.