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  • Fix or set securely or deeply.
    • usage: "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
  • Attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war.
    • usage: "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"
by WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
(v.t.) To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as, to embed a thing in clay, mortar or sand.
by Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary