1 [usuallypassive] (formal) to make sb feel braver or more confident:
[VN] Emboldened by the wine, he went over to introduce himself to her. * [VNtoinf] With such a majority, the administration was emboldened to introduce radical new policies.
2 [VN] (technical) to make a piece of text appear in BOLD print
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is embolden a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, embolden is tagged as verb.
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