Embossed vs Embosses - What's the difference?
embossed | embosses |
(emboss)
To mark or decorate with a raised design or symbol.
To raise in relief from a surface, as an ornament, a head on a coin, etc.
* Dryden
* Sir Walter Scott
(label) Of a hunted animal: to take shelter in a wood or forest.
(label) To drive (an animal) to extremity; to exhaust, to make foam at the mouth.
*, II.11:
*:And as it commonly happens, that when the Stag begins to be embost , and finds his strength to faile-him, having no other remedie left him, doth yeeld and bequeath himselfe unto us that pursue him, with teares suing to us for mercie.
(obsolete) To hide or conceal in a thicket; to imbosk; to enclose, shelter, or shroud in a wood.
* Milton
(label) To surround; to ensheath; to immerse; to beset.
* Spenser
As verbs the difference between embossed and embosses
is that embossed is (emboss) while embosses is (emboss).As an adjective embossed
is with raised letters or images on the surface.embosses
English
Verb
(head)emboss
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) embosen, from (etyl) embocer.Verb
(es)- The papers weren't official until the seal had been embossed on them.
- Then o'er the lofty gate his art embossed / Androgeo's death.
- Exhibiting flowers in their natural colour embossed upon a purple ground.
Etymology 2
Perhaps from . Compare (imbosk).Verb
(es)- in the Arabian woods embossed
- A knight her met in mighty arms embossed .
