emboss

English

Etymology 1

From em- +‎ boss.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɒs

Verb

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

1. To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.

   The papers weren't official until the seal had been embossed on them.

Translations

to mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol

• Bulgarian: украсявам с релеф (bg) (ukrasjavam s relef)
• French: estamper (fr)
• Italian: coniare (it)

• Japanese: (a type of lettering form) 浮き出し (ja) (uwatsuki)
• Russian: тиснить (ru) (tisnitʹ), выбивать (ru) (vybivatʹ), чеканить (ru) (čekanitʹ)
• Spanish: repujar (es)

Etymology 2

Perhaps from em- + Old French bos, bois (“wood”). Compare imbosk.

Verb

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

1. (obsolete) Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
2. (obsolete) To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.
   • 1603, John Florio, translating Michel de Montaigne, Essays, II.11:

     And as it commonly happens, that when the Stag begins to be embost, and finds his strength to faile-him, having no other remedie left him, doth yeeld and bequeath himselfe unto us that pursue him, with teares suing to us for mercie [...].

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