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Definition
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
- cactus needles embedded in my shoulder
embedded = firmly stuck into
- found pebbles embedded in the silt
- The computer chip is embedded in the control panel.
- The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division
- stone containing many embedded fossils
- an embedded subordinate clause
- confused by the embedded Latin quotations
- ...the house with bits of glass embedded in the walls-Laurie Halse Anderson -- Speak
- ...whose fangs are imbedded in the heel.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado
- It was some form of chalky granite, or a sandstone, but imbedded in it were large pieces of a darker stone, a harder and darker stone.Gary Paulsen -- Hatchet
- That old warehouse embedded with coal dust.Suzanne Collins -- Catching Fire
- Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead.Ray Bradbury -- A Sound of Thunder
- While he pulled on a shirt Nas Ta Bega made the rope fast to a snag of a log of driftwood embedded in the sand, and the boat swung to shore.Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
- Instead it swiped downward with both blade-studded hands where Thomas now knelt before it, his sword embedded in the monster's flesh.James Dashner -- The Scorch Trials
- Please don't let this glass have chicken wire embedded in it, I remembered to pray at the last second.James Patterson -- School's Out - Forever
- Feyd-Rautha jerked and sagged back, still held partly on his side by the needle imbedded in the floor.Frank Herbert -- Dune
- There seem to be several points of view embedded within the article, though each of them is indignant and righteous in tone.Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
- It is a physiological and psychological reaction, embedded in his being.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- Bees boomed down the purple tunnels of flowers; bees embedded themselves on the golden shields of sunflowers.Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
- He spun away from Drizzt and dove at the mirror embedded in the tower wall.R.A. Salvatore -- The Crystal Shard
embedded = partially implanted in
imbedded = firmly stuck into
imbedded = implanted as pieces of it