imbue
Other forms: imbued; imbuing; imbues
To imbue is to fill up with or become "soaked" in an idea or emotion, as a sponge takes in water. One visit to a sick relative in a hospital might be enough to imbue a child with a lifelong ambition to become a doctor.
You can use imbue in a similar way as "saturate," or "soak through," to describe a filling or absorbing. A "hue" is a color, and it rhymes with imbue. When you're imbued with something, you are, in a way, colored by it. If you imbue a dish sponge with oily orange water from a spaghetti bowl, the color and the oil soak in. To fill people with qualities or emotions is, for example, to imbue them with strength or optimism.
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spread or diffuse through
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fill, soak, or imbue totally
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synonyms:
soak
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types:
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infuse, steep
let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse
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brew
sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor
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marinade, marinate
soak in marinade
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decoct
steep in hot water
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infuse
undergo the process of infusion
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draw
steep; pass through a strainer
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type of:
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impregnate, saturate
infuse or fill completely
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suffuse with color
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give qualities or abilities to
Vocabulary lists containing imbue
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