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embraid

embraid verb: to braid up, to plait.

Verb

embraid (third-person singular simple present embraids, present participle embraiding, simple past and past participle embraided)

  1. (transitive) To braid up, to plait.
    • embraided hair
    • embraided locks
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To tell off; to reprimand
    • Minutius , who embraided him with cowardice1531, Thomas Elyot, The Boke Named the Governour […], London: […] Tho[mas] Bertheleti, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    upbraid

Synonyms of embraid

Forms of embraid

third-person singular presentembraids
present participleembraiding
past participleembraided
pastembraided

Origin of embraid

From em- + braid.

Questions about embraid

What does embraid mean?
Embraid means to braid up, to plait.
What part of speech is embraid?
Embraid is a verb.
What is the past tense of embraid?
The past tense of embraid is embraided.

Words near embraid in the dictionary

  1. embracingly
  2. embracingness
  3. embracings
  4. embracive
  5. Embraer
  6. embraid
  7. embraided
  8. embraiding
  9. embraids
  10. embrained
  11. embramine

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