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embay

[ em-bey ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to enclose in or as if in a bay; surround or envelop.
  2. to form into a bay.

embay

/ ɪmˈbeɪ /

verb

  1. to form into a bay
  2. to enclose in or as if in a bay
  3. (esp of the wind) to force (a ship, esp a sailing ship) into a bay
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other Words From

  • unem·bayed adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of embay1

First recorded in 1575–85; em- 1 + bay 1
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Example Sentences

An inspection of the barriers shows that they were incompetent to embay the ice: they are scarred and fluted from bottom to top.

He was now at that point where the Cabo de la Cruz on the south and this archipelago in the northwest embay a broad gulf.

The pent-up emotion had swollen and swollen inside the young thing till the dam could no longer embay it.

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