imbed

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The conceptus, repeatedly doubling the number of its cells, enters the uterus and imbeds itself in the lining for the remainder of the nine months' gestation.

From Time Magazine Archive

It imbeds itself in the center of the bud, tying the leaves together with its web.

From The Apple by Various

Into this lead facing the journal, under the pressure of the car, moulds or imbeds itself from the start, and afterwards gradually wears its way through it into the hard metal.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

In a superstitious mind, like that of the Professor of Celestial Mechanics, emotion is a stream of molten lava which catches and imbeds whatever it touches.

From Public Opinion by Lippmann, Walter

The placenta, an organ and gland of internal secretion newly formed in the uterus, when the fertilized ovum successfully imbeds itself within it, must be considered in any analysis of the transfigurations of child-bearing.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.