Embossed

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  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of emboss.
  • adj. With raised letters or images on the surface.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.
  • adj. Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield.
  • adj. Swollen; protuberant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Formed of or furnished with bosses or raised figures: as, embossed leather; embossed writing.
  • In botany, projecting in the center like the boss or umbo of a round shield or target.
  • Swollen; puffed up.
  • In entomology, having several plane tracts of any shape elevated above the rest of the surface: said of the sculpture of insects.
  • In glassdecoration, grained.
  • Foaming at the mouth and panting, as from exhaustion with running: a hunting term formerly applied to dogs and beasts of the chase.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery
  • Equivalent
    adorned    decorated   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    swollen    protuberant   
    Verb Stem
    emboss   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Aust    Frost    accost    cost    crossed    defrost    exhaust    frost    glossed    last   
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