Other forms: embedded, embedding, embeds
To embed is to fix something firmly inside something else. Embed a post in concrete.
It is used of objects, of ideas and of journalists placed with a military unit. An embedded reporter sees more and is far less independent, which is the whole argument about it.
1verbembedTo fix something firmly inside something else.
“They embed each post in a metre of concrete.”
embed is a fixing.
Proto-Indo-European
*bʰedʰ-
Middle English
bed
English
bed
English, today
embed
From en- + bed. bed comes from Middle English bed. Middle English bed, bedde, from Old English bedd, from Proto-West Germanic badi, from Proto-Germanic badją (“resting-place, plot of ground”). 2
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