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 →

2) (noun) A hug. tree →

3) To accept a new idea, change or opportunity happily and with enthusiasm. tree →

4) (formal) To include or contain: «The course embraces many subjects.» tree →

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 →
• She gave her grandad a long embrace. tree →
• Our school embraced the idea of a vegetable garden. tree →
• Embrace the challenge and try your best. tree →
• The mother held the baby in a warm embrace. tree →
• (formal) The topic embraces both history and geography. tree →
• I simply cannot wait to embrace you! tree →

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.
• And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
• Extol her, and she will exalt thee; she will bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.
• Why then wilt thou, my son, be ravished with a strange woman, and embrace the bosom of an alien?
• They are wet with the showers of the mountains, and embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «embrace» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.