imbed
🇺🇸
/ɪmˈbed/
🇬🇧
/ɪmˈbed/
verb
R
to firmly place something inside another thing
The small pebble was imbedded in the sand.
R
to assign a journalist to cover a conflict zone
The news agency imbedded a reporter with the troops in the war zone.
R
to insert a sentence within another sentence
In the sentence 'I know that she knows', 'she knows' is the imbedded sentence.
translation
to firmly place something inside another thing; to assign a journalist to cover a conflict zone; to insert a sentence within another sentence
Word Forms
3rd Present
imbeds
Past
imbedded
Perfect
imbedded
Progressive
imbedding