Sekirov Dictionary

half-embrace

noun 2
verb 2
forms 3

noun2

A partial hug.
•
An ambivalent acceptance or adoption.
- This half-embrace of failure, as Coward suggests, is something the British like to think of as distinctly British. — 2012

verb2

•
To embrace or wrap around partially.
- Flowers destitute of ray; leaves pinnatised, toothed, half-embracing the stem. — 1835
•
To adopt in an ambivalent or partial manner.
- One solution, which his own England would later half-embrace, was socialism or collectivism, “in which the means of production” are “in the hands of the political officers of the community. — 2010

forms

half-embraced · half-embracing · half-embraces

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