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Meaning of embay | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. To bathe; to steep.
    obsolete, transitive
  2. To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.
    transitive

Examples

“Sweete Loue, that doth his golding wings embay / In bleſſed Nectar, and pure Pleaſures well[…].”
“Their ſwords both points and edges ſharpe embay / In purple bloud, where ſo they hit or light[…]”
“Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […]”
“Herself the only daughter of a struggling man of letters, she had during the last year or two taken to writing poems, in an endeavour to find a congenial channel in which to let flow her painfully embayed emotions, whose former limpidity and sparkle seemed departing in the stagnation caused by the routine of a practical household and the gloom of bearing children to a commonplace father.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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