Definition of emboss
archaic
transitive verb
: to drive (a hunted animal) to bay or to exhaustion
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Origin and Etymology of emboss
Middle English embosen to become exhausted from being hunted, ultimately from Anglo-French bois woods
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Origin and Etymology of emboss
Middle English embosen, from Middle French embocer, from en- + boce boss
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