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IMBED
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Irregular inflected forms: imbedded
, imbedding
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they imbed
... he / she / it imbeds
Past simple: imbedded
-ing form: imbedding
Sense 1
Meaning:
Example:
The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum
Synonyms:
embed; engraft; imbed; implant; plant
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "imbed" is one way to...):
enter; infix; insert; introduce (put or introduce into something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "imbed"):
pot (plant in a pot)
nest (fit together or fit inside)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP