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Verb: embed (embedded,embedding)  em'bed
  1. Fix or set securely or deeply
    "The dentist embedded a tooth in the gum";
    - implant, engraft, imbed, plant
     
  2. Attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war
    "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"
     
  3. (computing) put entirely inside another document or data file

Derived forms: embedded, embedding, embeds

Type of: aggroup, enter, group, infix, insert, introduce

Encyclopedia: Embed