Usually means: Accept or support willingly, enthusiastically.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word embrace:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. embrace: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. embrace: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embrace: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embrace: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embrace: Vocabulary.com
  6. Embrace, embrace: Wordnik
  7. embrace: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. embrace: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. embrace: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. embrace: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Embrace, embrace: Dictionary.com
  12. embrace: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. embrace: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  15. Embrace: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. embrace: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. embrace: Rhymezone
  18. embrace: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. embrace: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. embrace: Free Dictionary
  21. embrace: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. embrace: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. embrace: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. embrace: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  25. embrace: Wiktionary

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embrace: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embrace: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. EMBRACE: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Embrace: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See embraceable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To clasp (someone or each other) in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; to hug.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To seize (something) eagerly or with alacrity; to accept or take up with cordiality; to welcome.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To submit to; to undergo.
verb:  (transitive, also figuratively) To encircle; to enclose, to encompass.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To enfold, to include (ideas, principles, etc.); to encompass.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete, rare) To fasten on, as armour.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively, obsolete) To accept (someone) as a friend; to accept (someone's) help gladly.
verb:  (transitive, law, figuratively, obsolete) To attempt to influence (a court, jury, etc.) corruptly; to practise embracery.
noun:  An act of putting arms around someone and bringing the person close to the chest; a hug.
noun:  (figuratively) An enclosure partially or fully surrounding someone or something.
noun:  (figuratively) Full acceptance (of something).
noun:  (figuratively) An act of enfolding or including.

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