All 8 Uses
embedded
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The Infinite Sea
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- She saw the inflamed tissue at the back of his mouth, but she did not see the hair-thin wire embedded near the opening of his throat.†
p. iv.9 *embedded = firmly within; or placed firmly within
- I feel the ancient yearning for fire embedded deep in my genes.†
p. 10.1
- Theirs, too: embedding themselves in human bodies, establishing death camps, training kids to finish the genocide, all of it crazy risky, stupid risky.†
p. 11.1embedding = putting firmly within
- The explosive is connected to a CO2 detector imbedded in her throat.†
p. 140.1imbedded = firmly within; or placed firmly within
- Embedded beneath the right tonsil.†
p. 146.6
- I could see the tiny hook embedded in her enflamed flesh as I tugged.†
p. 148.4
- I kneel beside his unconscious body, slip the knife from its sheath, and carefully cut out the pellet embedded near the spinal cord at the base of his skull.†
p. 249.1
- You know, it wasn't exactly like taking a walk in baseball, secret codes embedded in bogus games and slipping laxative in pudding and rigging explosives and stealing trucks and kidnapping pilots with fingers for you to break.†
p. 262.9
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)