English Dictionary

embrace

/ɛmˈbɹeɪs/

noun

An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug. / (figuratively) An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something.

She gave him a warm embrace.

意味（1）

An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug.

[E]yes, looke your laſt, / Armes take your laſt embrace: and lips, O you / The doores of breath, ſeale with a righteous kiſſe / A dateleſſe bargain to ingroſſing death: …

意味（2）

(figuratively) An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something.

When he reached the ridge the outlying fog crept across the summit, caught him in its embrace, and wrapped him from her gaze.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Full acceptance (of something).

And it was the white blood which sent him to the minister, which rising in him for the last and final time, sent him against all reason and all reality, into the embrace of a chimera, a blind faith in something read in a printed Book.

意味（4）

(figuratively) An act of enfolding or including.

In India men are enjoined to be fully awake to the fact that they are in the closest relation to things around them, body and soul, and that they are to hail the morning sun, the flowing water, the fruitful earth, as the manifestation of the same living truth which holds them in its embrace.