"imbed" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "imbeds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imbedding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imbedded",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imbedded",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "++"
      },
      "expansion": "imbed (third-person singular simple present imbeds, present participle imbedding, simple past and past participle imbedded)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "embed"
        }
      ],
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          "_dis": "56 7 25 11",
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          "source": "w+disamb"
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        {
          "_dis": "83 2 8 7",
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        },
        {
          "_dis": "86 2 7 6",
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        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "imbeddable"
        },
        {
          "word": "imbedder"
        },
        {
          "word": "imbedment"
        },
        {
          "word": "unimbedded"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
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            [
              78,
              86
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXIV, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 313:",
          "text": "The curse of the steam-boat is upon the lovely river; but some of the villas, imbedded in their own old trees—surrounded by turf the fairy queen might tread—girdled with every variety of flowery shrub—I do not quite say I could spend the whole day there, but I could have a luxurious breakfast—one ought to indulge in natural tastes of a morning.",
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          ],
          "ref": "1851, Thomas Carlyle, “Coleridge”, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, part I, page 78:",
          "text": "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.",
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        },
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              453,
              461
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon—so like a corkscrew now—was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco. The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.",
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              36,
              44
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          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:",
          "text": "A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of embed."
      ],
      "id": "en-imbed-en-verb-Oluh~NKy",
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        [
          "embed",
          "embed#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
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    }
  ],
  "word": "imbed"
}

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    "Old Irish lemmas",
    "Old Irish neuter nouns",
    "Old Irish neuter o-stem nouns",
    "Old Irish nouns",
    "Old Irish terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old Irish terms with unknown etymologies",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "imbeddable"
    },
    {
      "word": "imbedder"
    },
    {
      "word": "imbedment"
    },
    {
      "word": "unimbedded"
    }
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "imbeds",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imbedding",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imbedded",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "imbedded",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
      "expansion": "imbed (third-person singular simple present imbeds, present participle imbedding, simple past and past participle imbedded)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
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        {
          "word": "embed"
        }
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          "text": "The curse of the steam-boat is upon the lovely river; but some of the villas, imbedded in their own old trees—surrounded by turf the fairy queen might tread—girdled with every variety of flowery shrub—I do not quite say I could spend the whole day there, but I could have a luxurious breakfast—one ought to indulge in natural tastes of a morning.",
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          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        {
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              453,
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            ]
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          "ref": "1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:",
          "text": "Some were storied weapons. With this once long lance, now wildly elbowed, fifty years ago did Nathan Swain kill fifteen whales between a sunrise and a sunset. And that harpoon—so like a corkscrew now—was flung in Javan seas, and run away with by a whale, years afterwards slain off the Cape of Blanco. The original iron entered nigh the tail, and, like a restless needle sojourning in the body of a man, travelled full forty feet, and at last was found imbedded in the hump.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
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            [
              36,
              44
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 155:",
          "text": "A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative spelling of embed."
      ],
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  "word": "imbed"
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