verb ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. transitive

   "The shirt was imbued with his scent."

2. 2
   suffuse with color wordnet
3. 3
   In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

   "The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness."

4. 4
   fill, soak, or imbue totally wordnet
5. 5
   spread or diffuse through wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

permeatesoakabsorbanimateapply paintassimilate

Example

More examples

"The article "Wabi-Sabi Mathematics" concerns how wabi-sabi can imbue mathematics."

Etymology

From Latin imbuō (“wet, moisten”). Compare imbibe.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.