Definition of "embay" []

• To put, shelter, or detain in or as if in a bay. (verb-transitive)

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• "Most online auction sites such as embay have a feature that lets successful bidders leave public feedback about the auction seller they did business with."
• "How perfect is the verdure -- how rich the blossoming shrubberies that screen with verdurous walls from the possibility of intrusion, whilst by their own wandering line of distribution they shape and umbrageously embay, what one might call lawny saloons and vestibules -- sylvan galleries and closets."
• "The pent-up emotion had swollen and swollen inside the young thing till the dam could no longer embay it."