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Elegising
- verb - compose an elegy
- Laments
Elevating
- verb - give a promotion to or assign to a higher position; "John was kicked upstairs when a replacement was hired"; "Women tend not to advance in the major law firms"; "I got promoted after many years of hard work"
- raise from a lower to a higher position; "Raise your hands"; "Lift a load"
- raise in rank or condition; "The new law lifted many people from poverty"
Eliciting
- verb - call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses); "arouse pity"; "raise a smile"; "evoke sympathy"
- deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); "We drew out some interesting linguistic data from the native informant"
- derive by reason; "elicit a solution"
Elocuting
- verb - declaim in an elocutionary manner; "The poet elocuted beautifully"
Emanating
- verb - give out (breath or an odor); "The chimney exhales a thick smoke"
- proceed or issue forth, as from a source; "Water emanates from this hole in the ground"
Embalming
- verb - preserve a dead body
Embanking
- verb - enclose with banks, as for support or protection; "The river was embanked with a dyke"
Embarking
- verb - go on board
- proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers; "We ventured into the world of high-tech and bought a supercomputer"
- set out on (an enterprise or subject of study); "she embarked upon a new career"
Embedding
- verb - attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"
- fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"