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{
"term": "embed",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "embed",
"heSheIt": "embeds"
},
"pastSimple": "embedded",
"pastParticiple": "embedded",
"ingForm": "embedding"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "to fix something in a substance or solid object",
"sensetop": "be embedded in somethingembed something/itself (in something)",
"labels": "(figurative)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "an operation to remove glass that was embedded in his leg",
"contextForm": "be embedded in something"
},
{
"text": "These attitudes are deeply embedded in our society *(= felt very strongly and difficult to change)*."
},
{
"text": "The bullet embedded itself in the wall.",
"contextForm": "embed something/itself (in something)"
}
]
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to send a journalist, photographer, etc. to an area where there is fighting, so that they can travel with the army and report what is happening",
"sensetop": "embed somebody",
"cefr": "c2",
"examples": [
{
"text": "embedded reporters in the war zone"
}
],
"topics": ["TV, radio and news"]
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to place a sentence inside another sentence. In the sentence ‘I’m aware that she knows’, she knows is an embedded sentence.",
"sensetop": "embed something",
"labels": "(linguistics)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪmˈbed/",
"audio": "em/embed/embed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪmˈbedz/",
"audio": "em/embed/embeds__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪmˈbedɪd/",
"audio": "em/embed/embedded__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪmˈbedɪŋ/",
"audio": "em/embed/embedding__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪmˈbed/",
"audio": "em/embed/embed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪmˈbedz/",
"audio": "em/embed/embeds__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪmˈbedɪd/",
"audio": "em/embed/embedded__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ɪmˈbedɪŋ/",
"audio": "em/embed/embedding__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}