GDict

imbed

im'bed3 senses · 91 ms
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verb
  1. 1

    Alternative spelling of embed.alt-ofalternative

    • 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.
    • A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.

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