Emboss

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  • transitive verb. To mold or carve in relief.
  • transitive verb. To decorate with or as if with a raised design.
  • transitive verb. To adorn; decorate.
  • transitive verb. To cover with many protuberances; stud.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To form bosses on; fashion relief or raised work upon; ornament with bosses or raised work; cover or stud with protuberances, as a shield.
  • To represent in relief or raised work; specifically, in embroidery, to raise in relief by inserting padding under the stitches. See embossing.
  • noun. A boss; a protuberance.
  • To inclose as in a box; incase; sheathe.
  • To conceal in or as in a wood or thicket.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To raise the surface of into bosses or protuberances; particularly, to ornament with raised work.
  • transitive verb. To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, or the like.
  • intransitive verb. To seek the bushy forest; to hide in the woods.
  • transitive verb. To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to inclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
  • transitive verb. To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
  • transitive verb. To make to foam at the mouth, like a hunted animal.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.
  • verb. Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
  • verb. To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. raise in a relief
  • Word Usage
    "Holographic titles emboss their shiny covers of orchid or teal, sometimes cobalt."
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    impress  imprint  
    Hyponym
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    block  
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    Cos  Cross  Ross  across  boss  
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