embed

Definition

To lay (something) as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.

Etymology

From em- + bed.

Example Sentences

• "to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand"
• "To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it."
• "I have given my reasons for believing that … ; and that blank intervals of vast duration, as far as fossils are concerned, occurred during the periods when the bed of the sea was either stationary or rising, and likewise when sediment was not thrown down quickly enough to embed and preserve organic remains."