All 5 Uses
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Flags of Our Fathers
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- Part of our mission here was to embed this plaque in the rough rocky soil.†
Chpt 1.embed = place firmly within
- One was carried off with shrapnel embedded up and down his side.†
Chpt 1. *embedded = firmly within; or placed firmly within
- Advancing vehicles were blown up by aircraft bombs embedded in the sand as tank mines.†
Chpt 7.
- Blood streamed from the embedded fragments in his face.†
Chpt 8.
- Instead, he looked me directly in my nine-year-old eyes signaling that he'd like to embed an idea in my brain for the rest of my life.†
Chpt 20.embed = place firmly within
Definitions:
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(1)
(embedded) firmly within; or placed 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
- integrated in hardware -- as of a computer chip
- firmly set within -- as of a character trait
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)