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Imbedded

Imbed \Im*bed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Imbedded; p. pr. & vb. n. Imbedding.] [Pref. im- in + bed. Cf. Embed.] To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.

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imbedded

vb. (en-past of: imbed)

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imbedded

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imbed
  1. v. fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum" [syn: implant, engraft, embed, plant]

  2. [also: imbedding, imbedded]

Usage examples of "imbedded".

The wiring seems to be coded by an imbedded design since there wouldn't be sufficient light to see colour.

A few things are run by imbedded hardware and none of that seemed affected at all.

Or something slightly different from human, something imbedded in the walls and pockmarked floor tiles.

But she could sense the pseudo-life imbedded in the structure of the vessel, the flow of electrons, the activation of solenoids, the meshing of gears.

He was grateful that Batty, the part of him imbedded in the briefcase, had heeded his warning about staying quiet in public.

When you were told that there was important data imbedded in the briefcase, that wasn’t a lie.

They know what kind of data was imbedded in the briefcase, and what else they put in it.

Whatever part of Roy Batty, the human original, had been imbedded in the briefcase was gone now, dispersed to atoms as cold and fine as the white powder scattered irretrievably from the empty Sebastian packet.

The ordinary lion pit with which Tarzan was familiar had stakes imbedded in the bottom, upon whose sharpened points the hapless lion would be impaled, but this pit was not so made.

The loam was soft and easily removed, and it was not long until Tarzan had exposed that part of one of the stakes which was imbedded in the wall of the pit to almost its entire length, leaving only enough imbedded to prevent the stake from falling into the excavation.

Slowly the stakes rose from the trench in which they were imbedded and with them rose Numa's suspicion and growling.

He pointed toward a fragment that had evidently fallen from the summit of the cliff and which now lay imbedded in the sand a few feet from the base.

And it was she who discovered the weapon, imbedded in the upholstery of the back seat.

Especially in the shin where just the dirt and dust of a run could be imbedded and cause a repeat infection.

Dolphins had songs of their own which all The Tilleks had taught so well they were imbedded in their memofles: which they sang remembering the waters they had come from.