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"Set firmly within"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /ɪmˈbɛd/Part of speech verbSorted bdeemStarts with EEnds with D1 cluesCommon crossword word
1E2M3B4E5D

Definitions

  1. attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war

Word origin

From em- + bed.

Used in a sentence

  • to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand
  • This narrow-gauge line had suffered the same fate as that between Schull and Skibbereen, with the track taken up except where it runs through one of the town streets and is embedded in the macadam.
  • In the opposite direction a train got away from Huntly, but became embedded in the snow at Insch, where the passengers spent the night.

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