Definition for Embrace:

• em-br[= a]s', v.t. ( Spens.) to brace, to fasten, or bind:-- pr.p. embrac'ing; pa.p. embraced'. [ Em, in, and brace.]

Synonyms for Embrace:

• n.

  •
  • enfold,
  • think.
  •
  • clip.
  •act (noun)
  • bosom,
  • Embracement,
  • embracing.
  •caress (noun)
  • feel.
  •embrace (noun)
  • sweep up.

• v.

  •caress (verb)
  • nuzzle,
  • snuggle.
  •compose (verb)
  • compose,
  • invent,
  • form,
  • constitute,
  • fabricate,
  • construct,
  • combine,
  • compile.
  •enclose (verb)
  • imprison,
  • impound,
  • fence,
  • corral,
  • enclose,
  • cage,
  • encircle,
  • confine,
  • trap,
  • surround.
  •greet (verb)
  • kowtow,
  • notice,
  • smile,
  • hail,
  • curtsy,
  • wave,
  • bow,
  • accost,
  • salute,
  • vociferate,
  • approach,
  • shake hands with,
  • receive,
  • nod,
  • salaam,
  • acknowledge,
  • signal.
  •grip (verb)
  • adhere,
  • keep.
  •hold tightly in one's arms (verb)
  • entwine,
  • wrap,
  • cradle,
  • grab,
  • fold.
  •include in one's beliefs; take into account (verb)
  • make use of,
  • admit,
  • avail oneself of,
  • take advantage of.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • incorporate,
  • buss,
  • count in,
  • span,
  • unite,
  • number among,
  • subsume.
  •
  • embed,
  • supplement,
  • obey.
  •
  • accommodate,
  • pat.
  •
  • accept,
  • ruffle.
  •agree
  • assent.
  •attach to
  • cling.
  •caress
  • nestle.
  •choose
  • elect,
  • opt for,
  • single out.
  •comprehend
  • comprehend.
  •contain
  • have.
  •cover
  • provide for,
  • deal with.
  •entwine
  • wreathe.
  •enwrap
  • enwrap.
  •greet
  • move to,
  • shaking hands.
  •love
  • love.
  •Other relevant words:
  • favour,
  • fall in with,
  • bang,
  • welcome mat,
  • agglomerate,
  • give into,
  • detailed,
  • savvy,
  • swathe,
  • absolute,
  • make welcome,
  • insure,
  • pass over,
  • detain,
  • take into account,
  • core,
  • clot,
  • articulation,
  • be acquainted,
  • keep company with,
  • across-the-board,
  • wed,
  • concatenate,
  • consciousness,
  • get hitched with,
  • worship,
  • fasten,
  • bridge,
  • broad,
  • conceive,
  • accumulate,
  • welcoming,
  • have it,
  • be inclined,
  • stick together,
  • gird,
  • back,
  • club together,
  • link,
  • beset,
  • embroil,
  • band,
  • undertake,
  • circumvent,
  • hide,
  • spread over,
  • fancy,
  • stuff,
  • mobilize,
  • bridge over,
  • breed,
  • agree to,
  • tight grip,
  • conjoin,
  • reckon with,
  • accolade,
  • cuddling,
  • pass,
  • make love,
  • compress,
  • twin,
  • drag in,
  • compact,
  • kotow,
  • cross,
  • reverence,
  • closure,
  • shroud,
  • ring,
  • concede,
  • possess,
  • coddle,
  • defend,
  • get hold of,
  • coalesce,
  • gripe,
  • harbour,
  • connecting rod,
  • mitre,
  • ratify,
  • Ween,
  • bower,
  • interface,
  • hump,
  • swaddle,
  • approve,
  • collect,
  • congeal,
  • fuck,
  • support,
  • cover up,
  • fix upon,
  • comply with,
  • fill,
  • foster,
  • reception,
  • toehold,
  • extensive,
  • hinge,
  • cervix,
  • hold up,
  • Capping,
  • get married,
  • scarf,
  • entertain,
  • nurture,
  • kidnap,
  • begird,
  • copious,
  • assimilate,
  • cement,
  • like better,
  • desire,
  • pair,
  • Embox,
  • cut through,
  • salutation,
  • follow,
  • handshake,
  • abundant,
  • adhere to,
  • set,
  • whole,
  • drag into,
  • box,
  • be of opinion,
  • get across,
  • partake,
  • court,
  • open arms,
  • conglomerate,
  • hazard,
  • close quarters,
  • spirit,
  • package,
  • smother,
  • gain,
  • accede,
  • hold an opinion,
  • how-do-you-do,
  • tie,
  • mix,
  • boundary,
  • strain,
  • deal,
  • abduct,
  • footing,
  • elbow,
  • hook up with,
  • circumscribe,
  • belt,
  • fraternize,
  • purchase,
  • stay,
  • miter,
  • compass,
  • skirt,
  • drink to,
  • endorse,
  • take into consideration,
  • smack,
  • converge,
  • full,
  • knee,
  • suture,
  • thorough,
  • take,
  • advocate,
  • tape,
  • bill and coo,
  • perceive,
  • rake together,
  • gather,
  • heart,
  • shoulder,
  • pick,
  • pledge,
  • gouge,
  • search for,
  • endearment,
  • Clinging,
  • twist,
  • contract,
  • foothold,
  • incubate,
  • maintain,
  • select,
  • make sure of,
  • kneeling,
  • appropriate,
  • copulate,
  • compendious,
  • butt,
  • tie rod,
  • hold together,
  • total,
  • knit,
  • preserve,
  • merge,
  • entire,
  • stick to,
  • knot,
  • Accouple,
  • add-in,
  • affiliate,
  • knocker,
  • boob,
  • consolidate,
  • grant,
  • shanghai,
  • come round,
  • hello,
  • weld,
  • take it,
  • be endowed with,
  • be born with,
  • lump together,
  • fill out,
  • connect,
  • nurse,
  • piece together,
  • begin,
  • be partial to,
  • handle,
  • inclose,
  • drain,
  • carry,
  • join,
  • stick,
  • constrict,
  • harbor,
  • endure,
  • articulate,
  • marry,
  • Conglobulate,
  • hold on to,
  • collar,
  • consort,
  • get,
  • get over,
  • steal,
  • cut across,
  • know,
  • smile upon,
  • throttle,
  • associate with,
  • embark on,
  • agglutinate,
  • scrape,
  • implication,
  • implicate,
  • underwrite,
  • obeisance,
  • lay together,
  • communicate,
  • screw,
  • chain,
  • lie around,
  • Infold,
  • splice,
  • marshal,
  • Enswathe,
  • glad hand,
  • enter,
  • courtesy,
  • go out for,
  • unify,
  • blandishment,
  • hang on,
  • bear,
  • occupy,
  • solder,
  • league,
  • shove,
  • associate,
  • gliding joint,
  • treat,
  • Embay,
  • overcompensate,
  • meet,
  • employ,
  • uphold,
  • rabbet,
  • give consent,
  • mass,
  • cohere,
  • wide,
  • force,
  • use,
  • count,
  • foreclose,
  • knuckle,
  • compensate,
  • start,
  • solidify,
  • smiling reception,
  • tactility,
  • come together,
  • hip,
  • Enclasp,
  • glue,
  • dovetail,
  • bracket,
  • claim,
  • come over,
  • make advances,
  • catch on,
  • protect,
  • ample,
  • bunch,
  • twine,
  • dramatize,
  • agnize,
  • joint,
  • borrow,
  • consent,
  • capacious,
  • cluster,
  • enshroud,
  • bob,
  • amalgamate,
  • genuflection,
  • accueil,
  • nip,
  • persist,
  • blend,
  • apprehend,
  • complete,
  • envisage,
  • treasure,
  • lap,
  • seam,
  • encapsulate,
  • pivot joint,
  • tit,
  • toggle joint,
  • put together,
  • twinge,
  • yield,
  • take prisoner,
  • integrate,
  • pursue,
  • clap together,
  • clamp,
  • sweeping,
  • stitch,
  • promote,
  • arrogate,
  • friendship,
  • bonk,
  • greeting,
  • arrest,
  • fasten upon,
  • hold on,
  • treasure up,
  • Inwrap,
  • coupling,
  • coagulate,
  • wrist,
  • loving cup,
  • Engird,
  • nipple,
  • yoke,
  • bind,
  • symphysis,
  • acquiesce,
  • pivot,
  • encase,
  • meet halfway,
  • go into,
  • romance,
  • widespread,
  • obsequiousness,
  • grow together,
  • assemble,
  • neck,
  • take-in,
  • crate,
  • acquire,
  • carry off,
  • hang together,
  • enrol,
  • joining,
  • seizure,
  • death grip,
  • bite,
  • union,
  • Roger,
  • environ,
  • case,
  • bond,
  • invest,
  • comprehensive,
  • wrap up,
  • ankle,
  • esteem,
  • pack,
  • sustain,
  • close with,
  • overlay,
  • connection,
  • be on to,
  • undivided,
  • intercommunicate,
  • address,
  • champion,
  • center,
  • track,
  • wedge,
  • run across,
  • get the picture,
  • juncture,
  • breast,
  • opine,
  • close,
  • mortise,
  • global,
  • amass,
  • allow,
  • thrust,
  • siege,
  • claw,
  • flatter,
  • dramatise,
  • continue,
  • grasp at,
  • drag,
  • convolution,
  • embrasure,
  • inclusive,
  • prefer,
  • go round,
  • conjugate,
  • cleave,
  • couple,
  • toggle,
  • make out,
  • pocket,
  • Trow.

Paraphrases for Embrace:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    hugs.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    passes, takes.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    hugging, kiss.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    incorporates, embodies, integrates, assumes, covers, greets, Comprising, comprises, enacts, Including, kisses, espouses, consists, involves, meets, extends, includes, encompass, encompasses, passes, takes, Comprised.
  • Verb, base form
    lay, accepts, Adopting, incorporate, covering, endorse, endorses, includes, espouse, accommodate, assume, accede, subscribe, integrate, introduce, welcome, welcomed, encompass, behold, married, marry, join, enact, take, appreciate, greet, approve, approves, receive, embody, Comprised, capture, involve, seize, understand, embark, contain, acknowledge, reflect, countenance, admit, admits, recognize, follow, profess, bear, comprehend, Adapting, face, absorb, engage, mainstream, capitalize, choose, Chose, utilize, span, enjoy, pursue, transpose, employ, participate, assimilate, opt, harness, confront, exploit, shoulder.

• Other Related

  • Verb, base form
    kiss.

Antonyms for Embrace:

• v.

  • hold tightly in one's arms
    let go, reject, push away, release, give, uncover, unwrap, free, distrust, exclude, shun, unfasten, disbelieve, loose.
  • include in one's beliefs; take into account
    repudiate, turn away.
  • Other antonyms:
    strip, decline, leave, mislay, bare, ban, bar, except, demur, rule out, discard, forsake, denude, surrender, give up, object, preclude, prohibit, refuse, jettison, prevent, relinquish, junk, balk, abandon, misplace, omit, expose.

Homophones for Embrace:

• embark, embargo, empress, embarrass, empiric, enforce, emberiza.

Hypernym for Embrace:

• n.

  • act
    hug, snuggle, cuddle, clinch, squeeze, nestle.

Hyponym for Embrace:

• n.

  • act
    acceptation, espousal, grasp, grip, clutch, adoption, hold, clasp, clutches, clench, acceptance.
  • state
    inclusion.

• v.

  • stative
    include.