All 7 Uses
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The Sword of Summer
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- The asphalt cannonball plowed into my gut and embedded itself—burning, searing, destroying.†
p. 46.9embedded = firmly within; or placed firmly within
- He fought to free himself, bursting into flames, kicking and gouging, but I held on as we plummeted toward the Charles River, my sword still embedded in his stomach, my own organs burning away from the molten tar in my gut.†
p. 47.7
- No smoldering asphalt was embedded there.†
p. 52.4
- No ax was embedded there.†
p. 134.1
- When I got back to Sam, we examined the meat hook, which was embedded pretty well in the bull's skull.†
p. 225.5 *
- My meat hook was embedded in the back of his mouth, right where the hangy-down uvula thing would be in a human mouth.†
p. 229.8
- She knocked the other aside with her ax, spinning the hammer into the nearest willow tree, where it embedded itself up to the handle.†
p. 258.2
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)