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embayed

UK/ɪmˈbeɪd/

embayed is the simple past and past participle of embay.

Adjective

embayed (comparative more embayed, superlative most embayed)

  1. Enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured.
    • Yet ere thou be where thou would'st be embay'd, / Thou shalt upon another Forest set [...].1661, John Donne, Elegie XVIII
  2. Of water: formed into a bay or bays.
    • A veiled sunlight lit up faintly the grey sheet of water where the river was embayed.1916, James Joyce, chapter IV, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, New York, N.Y.: B[enjamin] W. Huebsch, →OCLC

Meaning of embay

Verb (1)

embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To bathe; to steep.
    • Sweete Loue, that doth his golding wings embay / In bleſſed Nectar, and pure Pleaſures well[…].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 560

Verb (2)

embay (third-person singular simple present embays, present participle embaying, simple past and past participle embayed)

  1. (transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
    • Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […]1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land […], New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part I (Jerusalem)...

Forms of embayed

comparativemore embayed
superlativemost embayed

Words formed from embayed

Words that rhyme with embayed

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Questions about embayed

What does embayed mean?
Embayed means enclosed in (or as though in) a bay; harboured.
What is embayed the simple past and past participle of?
Embayed is the simple past and past participle of embay.
What part of speech is embayed?
Embayed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce embayed?
Embayed is pronounced /ɪmˈbeɪd/ (UK).

Words near embayed in the dictionary

  1. embattlement
  2. embattlements
  3. embattles
  4. embattling
  5. embay
  6. embayed
  7. embaying
  8. embayment
  9. embayments
  10. embays
  11. Embden

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