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Imbue

//ɪmˈbjuː// verb

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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

Etymology

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

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