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say it: em-BRAY-sing
embracing is a noun meaning "the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)". It is pronounced /ɛmˈbɹeɪsɪŋ/ — em-BRAY-sing. It carries one recorded sense.
the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for embracing come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.