transitive. To fix or fasten (one thing) in (another); to implant or insert firmly.

transitive. To plant in, insert, infix. Chiefly passive, To be set, fixed, or embedded in something, e.g. as a crystal in a matrix of another kind…

To cause (a dye) to sink into the texture of a fabric; to work (a foreign substance) into the ‘fibre’, the intimate structure of anything. Chiefly…