- 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
After sowing, roll the surface of the lawn to imbed the seed in the soil, and make the ground firm enough about it to retain sufficient moisture to insure germination.
From Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover by Eben E. (Eben Eugene) Rexford
“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
His small eyes were imbedded in pale flesh, eyes that seldom smiled despite the giggle and the grin that sometimes flashed across his face, especially when he knew he was reaching people.
From "The Chocolate War" by Robert Cormier
There are no abstruse difficulties in properly imbedding a plant.
From Success with Small Fruits by Edward Payson Roe
Layers of concrete are laid over the roof rods to a thickness of from eighteen to thirty inches, and carried two inches below the rods, imbedding them.
From The New York Subway Its Construction and Equipment by Anonymous
M. A. de, on Pampean mud, 170.Organic remains, controversy as to real nature of, 19.——, imbedding of.
From Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Sir Charles Lyell
You must, for example, guard against imbedding the fish hook in the flesh, which is most painful, often leading to blood-poisoning.
From Explorers of the Dawn by Christopher Morley
Then, folding his arms, he watched the imbedding of those bricks in their plaster with a sovereign calm like that of Vitellius eating figs at the combats of the gladiators.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873 by Various
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