Imbue

//ɪmˈbjuː//

Synonyms for "imbue" (147 found)

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Synonyms

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derived

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manner of

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related to

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Translations

49 translations across 17 languages.

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Bulgarian

3 entries
  • напоявам verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • насищам verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • пропивам verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

Catalan

2 entries
  • imbuir verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • impregnar verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

Czech

4 entries
  • naplnit verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • nasytit verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • prodchnout verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • prodchnout verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

Dutch

4 entries
  • bevlekken verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • doordrenken verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • doortrekken verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • nat maken verb (to wet or stain completely)

Finnish

2 entries
  • kyllästää verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • kyllästää verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

French

2 entries
  • imprégner verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • imprégner verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

German

2 entries
  • durchdringen verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • tränken verb (to wet or stain completely)

Hungarian

2 entries
  • átitat verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • átitat verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

Italian

4 entries
  • impregnare verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • permeare verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • permeare verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • tingere verb (to wet or stain completely)

Latin

1 entries
  • imbuō verb (to wet or stain completely)

Portuguese

4 entries
  • imbuir verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • imbuir verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • impregnar verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • impregnar verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

Romanian

3 entries
  • impregna verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • impregna verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • îmbiba verb (to wet or stain completely)

Russian

2 entries
  • насыща́ть verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • пропи́тывать verb (to wet or stain completely)

Spanish

4 entries
  • imbuir verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • imbuir verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • impregnar verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • insuflar verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

Swedish

1 entries
  • genomsyra verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

Tocharian B

1 entries
  • snätk verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

Ukrainian

4 entries
  • просо́чувати verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • просо́чувати verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)
  • просочи́ти verb (to wet or stain completely)
  • просочи́ти verb (to permeate or impregnate completely)

Sample sentences

6 total sentences available.

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

Source: tatoeba (10673370)

Bratislav, the Croatian-descent dog owner of Rafa and Chino, does believe in souls and spirits, in some ways. On the 20th of October of 2012, with two leashes in hand, Bratislav the vampiric baron phantom struts approaching along the Halloween-like sidewalk, and then we have a conversation near the dilapidated purple-leaved tree in the neighbour Bruce's yard, here on Lulu Island. Yes, he says, he believes in souls and spirits and each kind is in a human body. I tell him that in some religions, people believe in multiple souls and spirits inside a body and to complicate matters, they may be "fluid" in nature. Bratislav thinks that I am like a Hispanic, but I imbue in him the notion of at least some Eastern influence inside of me. I take a pseudo-scientific turn and tell him that the "soul-spirit structure" may be really complicated and may have many components like a chandelier does with different gems and crystals.

Source: tatoeba (10697435)

On the 21st of October of 2012, Croatian-descent Bratislav and I a Filipino meet up again, on the grey-sky sidewalk. This time, Bratislav discusses about a Japanese psychic experiment wherein a Buddhist monk is used to imbue certain emotions like love, anger, etc. into water. Then the water is frozen. The researchers find out that different emotions affect the way water crystallizes.

Source: tatoeba (10698309)

We made an escapist political thriller that we wanted to imbue with humanity and realism.

Source: tatoeba (11923732)

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