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Adopting eagerly
Answer for the clue "Adopting eagerly ", 9 letters:
embracing
Alternative clues for the word embracing
- Include in scope
- As one heads for Mount Everest when climbing, cold as Skegness?
- The act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)
- Have as one's sphere or territory
- Displaying affection wildly can be grim
- Getting up in arms?
- Hug, usually with fondness
- Take up the cause, ideology, practice, method, of someone and use it as one's own
Word definitions for embracing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Embrace \Em*brace"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Embraced ([e^]m*br[=a]st"); p. pr. & vb. n. Embracing ([e^]m*br[=a]"s[i^]ng).] [OE. embracier, F. embrasser; pref. em- (L. in) + F. bras arm. See Brace , n.] To clasp in the arms with affection; to take in the arms; ...
Usage examples of embracing.
Amid handshakings, embracings, good wishes, and kisses, boxes are opened, bonbons are showered forth, parcels are undone, mirth becomes deafening, and good humor tumultuous.
Tityros and godfather Idomeneas soon got away from the embracings and greetings and began whispering together on a corner of the sofa.