emboss

em·boss

Use emboss in a sentence

An old certificate embossed with a gold seal.

verb

Emboss is defined as to carve, or to decorate with raised designs.

An example of emboss is to engrave a pattern in a wooden table.

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emboss

to decorate or cover with designs, patterns, etc. raised above the surface
to carve, raise, or print (a design, etc.) so that it is raised above the surface; raise in relief
to embellish; ornament

Origin of emboss

Middle English embocen from Old French embocer: see en- and boss

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emboss

transitive verb

em·bossed, em·boss·ing, em·boss·es

To mold or carve in relief: emboss a design on a coin.
To decorate with or as if with a raised design: emboss leather.
To adorn; decorate.
To cover with many protuberances; stud: “The whole buoy was embossed with barnacles” ( Herman Melville )

Origin of emboss

Middle English embosen from Old French embocer en- in ; see en- ¹. boce knob

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em·boss′er
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Verb

(third-person singular simple present embosses, present participle embossing, simple past and past participle embossed)

To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.
The papers weren't official until the seal had been embossed on them.
To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc.

Origin

From Middle English embosen, from Old French embocer.

Verb

(third-person singular simple present embosses, present participle embossing, simple past and past participle embossed)

(obsolete) of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest
(obsolete) to drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth
(obsolete) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
(obsolete) to surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset

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