embay in English
verb
1
(chiefly of the wind) confine (a sailing vessel) to a bay.
ships were embayed between two headlands
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1. The central smooth plains embay and partially flood many of these craters suggesting that the plains resulted from the prolonged effusive volcanic activity.
2. The influence of Autecologic and taphonomic processes in establishing the characteristics of the size-frequency distribution by comparing these assemblages with those from the nearby continental slope and a nearby coastal embay ment, Copano Bay