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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
embed
v
  1. fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
    Synonym(s): implant, engraft, embed, imbed, plant
  2. attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Embed \Em*bed"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Embedded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Embedding}.] [Pref. em- + bed. Cf. {Imbed}.]
      To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed; as,
      to embed a thing in clay, mortar, or sand.
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