Imbed

Quick meaning: Imbed is a verb meaning Alternative spelling of embed.

Meaning

Alternative spelling of embed.

Example Sentences

A piece of marigold or bay leaf was imbedded in the metal, and over it a carbuncle or chrysolite was placed.

To the man himself [Samuel Taylor Coleridge] Nature had given, in high measure, the seeds of a noble endowment; […] but imbedded in such weak laxity of character, in such indolences and esuriences as had made strange work with it.

The curse of the steam-boat is upon the lovely river; but some of the villas, imbedded in their own old trees—surrounded by turf the fairy queen might tread—girdled with every variety of flowery shrub—I do not quite say I could spend the whole day there, but I could have a luxurious breakfast—one ought to indulge in natural tastes of a morning.

Word Forms

• imbeds
• imbedding
• imbedded

Synonyms for imbed

Depending on context, synonyms include embed, engraft, plant, implant.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include embed, implant, engraft, plant, insconce, engrain.

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