Embrace and Elect

Embrace

Embrace verb - To receive or accept gladly or readily.
Usage example: the exchange student was gratified to be so quickly embraced by people of the small rural community

Elect and embrace are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Elect" instead a verb "Embrace".

Nearby Words: embraced, embracing

Elect

Elect verb - To decide to accept (someone or something) from a group of possibilities.
Usage example: I've elected to study French as my foreign language

Embrace and elect are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Embrace" instead a verb "Elect".

Common collocations

death embrace death elect death
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