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embrave

embrave verb: to inspire with bravery.

Verb

embrave (third-person singular simple present embraves, present participle embraving, simple past and past participle embraved)

  1. (obsolete) To inspire with bravery.
    • fewer Colors should embrave his Coat1648, Joseph Beaumont, “(please specify the canto number)”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) To embellish, adorn.
    • The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of embrave

third-person singular presentembraves
present participleembraving
past participleembraved
pastembraved

Origin of embrave

From en- + brave.

Questions about embrave

What does embrave mean?
Embrave means to inspire with bravery.
What part of speech is embrave?
Embrave is a verb.
What is the past tense of embrave?
The past tense of embrave is embraved.

Words near embrave in the dictionary

  1. embrangles
  2. embrangling
  3. embrasure
  4. embrasured
  5. embrasures
  6. embrave
  7. embraved
  8. embraves
  9. embraving
  10. embrawn
  11. embrawned

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