embrave

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verb

To inspire with bravery.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person embraves · participle present embraving · participle past embraved · past embraved

  1. obsoleteTo inspire with bravery.

    fewer Colors should embrave his Coat

    1648, Joseph Beaumont, “(please specify the canto number)”, in Psyche: Or Loves Mysterie, […], London: […] John Dawson for George Boddington, […], →OCLC
  2. obsoleteTo 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

Origin

From en- + brave.

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APA

embrave. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embrave

MLA

“embrave.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embrave. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “embrave,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/embrave.

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