Both Uses of
embedded
in
Anne Of Green Gables
- Anne promptly let go of her candle and plate in her surprise, and plate, candle, and apples crashed together down the cellar ladder and were found at the bottom embedded in melted grease, the next day, by Marilla, who gathered them up and thanked mercy the house hadn't been set on fire.†
Chpt 18
- The flat was accordingly pushed off, scraping roughly over an old embedded stake in the process.†
Chpt 28 *
Definition:
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(embedded) firmly withinin various senses, including:
- firmly stuck into -- as a thorn into a finger
- enclosed within -- as a fossil within a rock
- implanted as a part -- sometimes specifically of a reporter living with a military unit