Emboss

Quick meaning: Emboss is a verb meaning To cause (something) to stick out or swell; to extrude; also, to cause (someone or something) to be covered in swellings.

Meaning

To cause (something) to stick out or swell; to extrude; also, to cause (someone or something) to be covered in swellings.

More Meanings

1. To make (a design on a coin, an ornament on an object, etc.) stand out from a surface.
2. To represent (a subject) on an object in relief; also, of a design or subject: to stand out on (an object) in relief.
3. To decorate or mark (something) with a design or symbol in relief.
4. To decorate (something) with bosses (“ornamental convex protuberances”); to boss; hence, to decorate (something) richly.
5. To cause (something) to be prominent or stand out.
6. To make (speech, etc.) unduly bombastic or grand.
7. (obsolete, rare) Synonym of boss (“a knob or projection”).

Example Sentences

His Cattel muſt of Rot and Murren die, / Botches and blaines muſt all his fleſh imboſs, / And all his people; […]

The house opposite my lodging had been formerly a Palace of the King's, the outside was totaly cover'd with fleurs de lyes, emboss'd out of yᵉ stone.

An oak grew near, and with its ample boughs / O'ercanopied the spring; its fretted roots / Emboss'd the bank, and on their tufted bark / Grew plants which love the moisture and the shade.

VVhen God, vvhoſe vvords more in a moment can, / Then in an Age the proudeſt ſtrength of Man, / Had ſeuered the Floods, leuell'd the Fields, / Embas't the Valleys, and emboſt the Hils; […]

Word Forms

• embosses
• embossing
• embossed

Synonyms for emboss

Depending on context, synonyms include boss, stamp.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include boss, stamp, imboss, belly, bombast, enstamp.

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