(fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum")
(attach to, as a journalist to a military unit when reporting on a war; "The young reporter was embedded with the Third Division")
(enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass; "found pebbles embedded in the silt"; "stone containing many embedded fossils"; "peach and plum seeds embedded in a sweet edible pulp")
(inserted as an integral part of a surrounding whole; "confused by the embedded Latin quotations"; "an embedded subordinate clause")
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