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Embed  v. t.  (past & past part. embedded; pres. part. embedding)  To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... such a burden quite unmanageable, went under, and all aboard her perished; whereas the ship, leaky though she was, and all but full of water, yet, driven by the fury of the tempest, was hurled with prodigious velocity upon the shore of the island of Majorca, and struck it with such force as to embed herself in the sand, perhaps a stone's throw from terra firma, where she remained all night beaten and washed by the sea, but no more to be moved by the utmost violence of the gale. None had remained aboard her but the lady and her women, whom the malice of ...
— The Decameron, Volume I • Giovanni Boccaccio

... most, the gift of the right word. And if he does not, like one or two of the greater masters of song, stir our sympathies by that indefinable aroma so magical in arousing the subtile associations of the soul, he has this in common with the few great writers, that the winged seeds of his thought embed themselves in the memory and germinate there. If I could be guilty of the absurdity of recommending to a young man any author on whom to form his style, I should tell him that, next to having ...
— Among My Books - First Series • James Russell Lowell



Words linked to "Embed" :   infix, group, plant, sink, pot, insert, bury, engraft, nest, introduce, implant



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