Synonyms for embrace
ɛmˈbreɪs

Princeton's WordNet(1.33 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. embrace, embracing, embracement(noun)

   the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)

   Synonyms:
   embracement, bosom, embracing

2. embrace(noun)

   the state of taking in or encircling

   "an island in the embrace of the sea"

   Synonyms:
   embracement, bosom, embracing

3. embrace, bosom(verb)

   a close affectionate and protective acceptance

   "his willing embrace of new ideas"; "in the bosom of the family"

   Synonyms:
   heart, bosom, boob, knocker, embracement, tit, embracing, titty, breast

4. embrace, encompass, comprehend, cover(verb)

   include in scope; include as part of something broader; have as one's sphere or territory

   "This group encompasses a wide range of people from different backgrounds"; "this should cover everyone in the group"

   Synonyms:
   wrap up, compass, get over, hug, insure, plow, espouse, enshroud, dig, compensate, breed, encompass, shroud, continue, sweep up, treat, hatch, adopt, report, extend, cut across, brood, squeeze, deal, grasp, incubate, underwrite, overcompensate, address, spread over, hide, get the picture, traverse, apprehend, pass over, bosom, comprehend, handle, perceive, overlay, cover, savvy, cross, cut through, grok, get across, cover up, track

5. embrace, hug, bosom, squeeze(verb)

   squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with fondness

   "Hug me, please"; "They embraced"; "He hugged her close to him"

   Synonyms:
   hug, twitch, espouse, rack, pressure, encompass, thrust, press, gouge, sweep up, adopt, force, shove, twinge, compress, tweet, contract, compact, extort, stuff, squeeze, squash, bosom, pinch, wring, hale, mash, coerce, comprehend, cover, wedge, squelch, constrict, crush

6. espouse, embrace, adopt, sweep up(verb)

   take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own

   "She embraced Catholicism"; "They adopted the Jewish faith"

   Synonyms:
   adopt, hook up with, acquire, marry, sweep, cover, get hitched with, dramatize, wed, hug, take up, comprehend, assume, get married, embroil, take in, encompass, follow, squeeze, sweep up, conjoin, bosom, take, take over, dramatise, drag in, borrow, espouse, take on, drag, tangle

English Synonyms and Antonyms(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. embrace

   To caress is less than to embrace; more dignified and less familiar than to fondle. A visitor caresses a friend's child; a mother fondles her babe. Fondling is always by touch; caressing may be also by words, or other tender and pleasing attentions.

   See synonyms for AFFRONT.

   Synonyms:
   caress, coddle, court, flatter, fondle, kiss, pamper, pet

   Preposition:
   Caressed by or with the hand; caressed by admirers, at court.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. embrace

   Synonyms:
   clasp, comprehend, include, hug, comprise, contain, close, embody, incorporate

   Antonyms:
   exclude, reject, except

Dictionary of English Synonymes(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. embrace(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   clasp (in the arms), hug

2. embrace(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   welcome, seize, accept, lay hold on

3. embrace(v. a.)

   Synonyms:
   comprehend, include, cover, contain, comprise, enclose, encompass, encircle, embody, take in

4. embrace(n.)

   Synonyms:
   hug, clasp

PPDB, the paraphrase database(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. List of paraphrases:

   kiss, adopt, kissing, encompass, behold, accept, hug, cover, include

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How to use embrace in a sentence?

1. Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia:

   Dear loved papa, I so much want to see you. I have just ended my lesson of arithmetic, I think that I succeeded well. We go to school of nurses, I am very happy there. Today it is raining and it is very humid. I am in Tatiana’s room with Olga and Tatiana. When you will see Boba, say to him that my hands itch me. I try to breed my own livestock of poetry of earth. Olga says that I smell poor, but it is not true. When you will come back, I shall wash myself in your tub. I hope that you did not forget the history which I told you during our promenade. I am sitting down and scratch my nose with the left hand. Olga wanted to slap me for it, but I avoided the hand. Be happy and in good health. I think extremely of you and embrace you tenderly.

2. Debbie Godwin:

   I believe that God would give me the grace to even embrace this man. And hug him ..., i just would want him to know that even in his worst state, he's loved, you know, by God, that God loves him, even in the bad stuff that he did to my dad.

3. Richard Bitzinger:

   Higher Chinese spending, coupled with increasingly aggressive actions and assertive language, is likely to further push countries into the U.S. nominal embrace.

4. Andrea Scholer, author and philosopher:

   It is difficult for intellect, technology, and peace to coexist. Not because peace is static where the other two require constant stimulation. Peace can embrace change. It is because we live in a world where intellect and technology compete for power. And peace does not allow for inequality or competition.

5. Farris Wilks:

   America has always been a land of opportunity. Its the one place on earth where you can go from building brick walls in the Texas heat to the kind of success my brother and I have achieved, ted Cruz believes in the opportunity society, he believes in the dignity of hard work, and hes not afraid to fight for what he believes in. The Wilkses are not the only billionaires backing Cruz. Reclusive hedge fund magnate Robert Mercer gave $11 million; Texas energy investor Toby Neugebauer gave $10 million. Mercer has declined to comment on why he is supporting Cruz, while Neugebauer backs Cruz for his track record promoting conservative causes and opposing the federal debt. Despite the large donations, Cruz is not among the leaders of the Republican race. A Reuters/Ipsos poll on Sept. 8 showed him in fourth place among Republican voters at 5.5 percent, tied with former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker. . PRAYING FOR CRUZ. The day after President Barack Obama won a second term, I was pretty bummed out, Farris Wilks told congregants in a sermon on Nov. 7, 2012, a recording of which was provided by Peter Montgomery, a senior fellow with the equal rights group People for the American Way. I do believe that our country died that Tuesday night, Wilks said. Less than a year later, Farris found himself in the ballroom of the Marriott Hotel in Des Moines, Iowa, where Cruz stood with head bowed in a prayer circle, surrounded by evangelical Christians. Cruz was among the political headliners at a Pastors and Pews conference, an annual, closed-door affair that now occurs in roughly 14 states and is organized by Christian nationalist David Lane. The born-again Lane, a self-described former wild man of drugs, wine, women and song, believes the Bible should be the primary textbook in public schools and that judges who favor same-sex marriage should be impeached. He says people who embrace homosexual marriage, along with pagan public schools, pagan higher learning and pagan media, are creating Americas downfall with their multiracial false gods. One of Lanes major aims is to motivate at least 1,000 pastors to run for office in 2016. Polling shows there are 65 million to 80 million evangelical Christians but only a quarter of them vote. Getting 5 percent more registered and voting would, according to Lane, put a conservative in the White House. Asked about the Wilks brothers' financial support for Cruz, Lane said in an interview:.

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