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embosomed

[em-booz-uhm, -boo-zuhm]

verb (used with object)

to enfold, envelop, or enclose.

to take into or hold in the bosom; embrace.

to cherish; foster.

Also, imbosom.

Origin:
1580–90; em-¹ + bosom

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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