1-Stop Dictionary Reference

Emboss

This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

v. To mold or carve in relief: emboss a design on a coin.

v. To decorate with or as if with a raised design: emboss leather.

v. To adorn; decorate.

v. To cover with many protuberances; stud: "The whole buoy was embossed with barnacles” ( Herman Melville).

v. To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.

v. Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.

v. To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.

v. To raise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.

v. To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.

v. To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.

v. To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.

v. To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.

verb-intransitive. To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.

To form bosses on; fashion relief or raised work upon; ornament with bosses or raised work; cover or stud with protuberances, as a shield.

To represent in relief or raised work; specifically, in embroidery, to raise in relief by inserting padding under the stitches. See embossing.

n. A boss; a protuberance.

To conceal in or as in a wood or thicket.

To inclose as in a box; incase; sheathe.

v. raise in a relief

"Holographic titles emboss their shiny covers of orchid or teal, sometimes cobalt."

embossed embosses embossing

Words that are more generic or abstract

imprint impress

block

embossed embossing

Words with the same meaning

imbosk surround ensheath immerse beset

Words with the same terminal sound

Cos Cross Ross across boss

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