Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Formed of or furnished with bosses or raised figures: as, embossed leather; embossed writing.
- In botany, projecting in the center like the boss or umbo of a round shield or target.
- Swollen; puffed up.
- In entomology, having several plane tracts of any shape elevated above the rest of the surface: said of the sculpture of insects.
- In glassdecoration, grained.
- Foaming at the mouth and panting, as from exhaustion with running: a hunting term formerly applied to dogs and beasts of the chase.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Formed or covered with bosses or raised figures.
- adjective Having a part projecting like the boss of a shield.
- adjective obsolete Swollen; protuberant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
emboss . - adjective With
raised letters orimages on the surface.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective embellished with a raised pattern created by pressure or embroidery
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Examples
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Weeks later, when he failed to return, she went through his desk and found the wedding invitation with his name embossed as the groom.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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Weeks later, when he failed to return, she went through his desk and found the wedding invitation with his name embossed as the groom.
Three Stages of Amazement Carol Edgarian 2011
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It was a beautiful leather-bound journal with my name embossed in gold.
Take Me There Carolee Dean 2010
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It was a beautiful leather-bound journal with my name embossed in gold.
Take Me There Carolee Dean 2010
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It was a beautiful leather-bound journal with my name embossed in gold.
Take Me There Carolee Dean 2010
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It was a beautiful leather-bound journal with my name embossed in gold.
Take Me There Carolee Dean 2010
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She ran her finger over the name embossed on the card as she read it aloud.
Rainwater Sandra Brown 2009
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No disc jockey, no hired entertainers, no fancy favors with my name embossed on a T-shirt or stitched onto a baseball cap.
Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner 2008
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No disc jockey, no hired entertainers, no fancy favors with my name embossed on a T-shirt or stitched onto a baseball cap.
Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner 2008
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No disc jockey, no hired entertainers, no fancy favors with my name embossed on a T-shirt or stitched onto a baseball cap.
Certain Girls Jennifer Weiner 2008
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