{
    "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
}