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imbraid

imbraid is the obsolete form of embraid.

Meaning of embraid

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
  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

Forms of imbraid

third-person singular presentimbraids
present participleimbraiding
past participleimbraided
pastimbraided

Questions about imbraid

What is imbraid the obsolete form of?
Imbraid is the obsolete form of embraid.

Words near imbraid in the dictionary

  1. imbracery
  2. imbraces
  3. imbracest
  4. imbraceth
  5. imbracing
  6. imbraid
  7. imbraided
  8. imbraiding
  9. imbraids
  10. imbrangle
  11. imbrangled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imbraid (page history and authors); embraid (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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