emboss

Plural: embosses

Verb

Verb Forms: embossed, embossing, embosses

To decorate with a raised design.
raise in a relief
- "embossed stationery"
To cause (something) to stick out or swell; to extrude; also, to cause (someone or something) to be covered in swellings.
To make (a design on a coin, an ornament on an object, etc.) stand out from a surface.
To represent (a subject) on an object in relief; also, of a design or subject: to stand out on (an object) in relief.
To decorate or mark (something) with a design or symbol in relief.
To decorate (something) with bosses (“ornamental convex protuberances”); to boss; hence, to decorate (something) richly.
To cause (something) to be prominent or stand out.
To make (speech, etc.) unduly bombastic or grand.
Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a forest or wood.
To drive (a hunted animal) to exhaustion by chasing it; to exhaust; hence, to make (a hunted animal) foam at the mouth due to exhaustion from being chased.
To cause (an animal's body, a person's mouth, etc.) to be covered with foam.
To cause (someone, their heart or soul, etc.) to become extremely fatigued; to exhaust.
Of a person: to foam at the mouth; also (figurative), to be furious, to rage.
To enclose or suit (a person) in armour.
To enclose or surround (someone or something).

Noun

Synonym of boss (“a knob or projection”).

Examples

Her clever play managed to emboss a new word vertically on the Words With Friends board.
The papers weren’t official until the seal had been embossed on them.

Origin / Etymology

PIE word
*h₁én
The verb is derived from Late Middle English embossen, embosen, embocen (“to be bloated; to bulge; to cause to bulge; to ornament in relief, emboss”) [and other forms], from Old French embocer (modern French embosser), from em- (a variant of en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’)) + boce (“swelling”) (from Vulgar Latin *bottia (“a bump”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *bautan (“to beat”), from Proto-Germanic *bautaną (“to beat; to bump, knock; to push”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to hit, strike”)) + -er (suffix forming verbs). The English word is analysable as em- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + boss (“bump, lump, protuberance”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

Synonyms

boss, stamp

Scrabble Score: 10

emboss: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
emboss: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
emboss: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 12

emboss: valid Words With Friends Word