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embossed
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Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒst
Verb
embossed
- simple past and past participle of emboss
Adjective
embossed (comparative more embossed, superlative most embossed)
- With raised letters or images on the surface.
- Synonym: empaestic
- (obsolete) Foaming at the mouth.
- c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Induction, scene 1:
- Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds;/Broch Merriman, the poor cur is emboss'd;/And couple Clowder with the deep-mouth'd brach.
- Synonym of umbonate.
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