Definition of "imbed" [im•bed]

• Variant of embed. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Our eyes met and the words dirty bomb flitted through my mind as I watched nails imbed in him, turning him into a human pincushion."
• "But first, let me make an observation about pricing digital books higher than printed ones: Bear in mind that you can imbed video and audio in an ebook."
• "As we move forward, we have to continue to imbed that deeply into the culture of athletic programs and we still have a ways to go."