Couple in stormy Med taken aboard (8)
I believe the answer is:
embraced
'taken aboard' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to thinking as well as being past participle verbs.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'couple in stormy med' is the wordplay.
'couple' becomes 'brace' (brace can mean a pair of something).
'in' is an insertion indicator.
'stormy' indicates an anagram (stormy suggests disruption).
'med' is an anagram of 'emd'.
'brace' going inside 'emd' is 'EMBRACED'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for embraced that I've seen before include "is taken up" , "Hugged" , "accepted enthusiastically" , "held using arms" , "Contained; held closely" .)