Definition of "imbedded" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of imbed. (verb)

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• "The Negro got the idea imbedded in him during his servitude that religion and morality, like the Jews and Samaritans, had no dealings with each other."
• "An East Indiaman was once attacked by a sword-fish with such prodigious force that its "snout" was driven completely through the bottom of the ship, which must have been destroyed by the leak had not the animal killed itself by the violence of its own exertions, and left its sword imbedded in the wood."
• "Snowball knew it was not: for the ex-sea-cook could have told of like experiences; and William was also satisfied of its truth, from having read the account of a similar incident, and heard that the evidences of it, -- that is, a piece of the solid wood of the ship's timbers, with the sword imbedded in it, -- were to be seen at any time in the British Museum."