- a variation of embed.
imbed
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Then — and I’m not sure how you’ll do this — you must imbed belief, building upon the jilted relationships and smoldering ashes and shards of broken glass DeBoer left behind.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 13, 2024
While Trudeau may be the immediate benefactor, it also gives the Conservatives more time to imbed a new leader after their convention in September.
From Reuters ● Mar. 25, 2022
He says circle hooks, which are bent farther toward the hook’s shaft, are likelier to imbed in the mouth and easier to remove before releasing the fish.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 26, 2016
As interactions with machines increase in our daily life, we will need to learn to imbed them with values that are aligned with ours.
From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2016
The team stuck fast in the black muck, and every effort to extricate them served only to imbed them more hopelessly in the sticky gumbo.
From The Foreigner A Tale of Saskatchewan by Ralph Connor
“Expect an imbedded risk premium until there is more concrete news about the two sides meeting.”
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2025
Heaters can be imbedded in a patio wall or freestanding.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
“We have personnel imbedded to help and monitor.”
From The Verge ● Mar. 3, 2022
The experiment, which started in June, imbedded a “triage pod,” of paramedics, public health clinicians and dispatchers to review the best response to non-emergency 911 calls.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 29, 2021
The little octopi live among the boulders imbedded in sand.
From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck
By hypothesis this rigid, incompressible body pervades all space, imbedding every particle of tangible matter; yet it seems not to retard the movements of this matter in the slightest degree.
From A History of Science — Volume 3 by Henry Smith Williams
Q. 830 Quadrumana, fossil, 144.Quadrupeds, domestic, multiply in America, 584, 685.——, regions of indigenous, 630, 636.——, imbedding of terrestrial, 749.Quaggas, migrations of, 638.Quebec, climate of, 95.——, earthquakes in, 470.Queenstown,
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
The molecules of iron, becoming incorporated in the now thick and viscous oil or imbedding themselves in the bearing, act as an abrasive; the black surface is removed, making the pivot again bright, but "ringed."
From Friction, Lubrication and the Lubricants in Horology by William T. Lewis
Moses, recognizing the influence of the crowd even when in the wrong, felt the necessity of imbedding in the Jewish code this declaration: "Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil."
From Unfettered A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs
Earwigs are horrid insects to get into a garden; they often come in with a load of manure, simply swarms of them imbedding themselves in such places.
From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Violet Purton Biddle
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