verb

1. To lay as in a bed; to lay in surrounding matter; to bed.

   “to embed something in clay, mortar, or sand”

2. (by extension) To include in surrounding matter.

   “We wanted to embed our reporter with the Fifth Infantry Division, but the Army would have none of it.”

3. To encapsulate within another document or data file.

   “The instructions showed how to embed a chart from the spreadsheet within the wordprocessor document.”