Usually means: Enclose water with land around.
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General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. embay: Merriam-Webster
  2. embay: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. embay: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. embay: Collins English Dictionary
  5. embay: Wordnik
  6. embay: Wiktionary
  7. embay: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. embay: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. embay: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Embay, embay: Dictionary.com
  11. Embay: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. embay: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. Embay: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. embay: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. embay: FreeDictionary.org
  16. embay: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. embay: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (embay)

▸ verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To bathe; to steep.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To shut in, enclose, shelter or trap, such as ships in a bay.

Similar:
embathe, beath, bebathe, forbathe, bebay, bathe, indrench, seethe, insteep, embalsam, more...

Opposite:
disembay, unbay, release from bay

Types:
Chesapeake Bay, SFrancisco Bay, Hudson Bay, Morecambe Bay, Bristol Bay, more...

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Similar:
embathe, beath, bebathe, forbathe, bebay, bathe, indrench, seethe, insteep, embalsam, more...

Opposite:
disembay, unbay, release from bay

Types:
Chesapeake Bay, SFrancisco Bay, Hudson Bay, Morecambe Bay, Bristol Bay, more...



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