IMBUE meaning: Infuse with feelings or qualities

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General (22 matching dictionaries)

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imbue: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
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imbue: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (imbue)

▸ verb: (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
▸ verb: In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

Similar:

saturate, soak, permeate, tinge, diffuse, pervade, hue, embue, imbrue, embrue, more...

Opposite:

drain, empty, deplete, remove, extract

Phrases:

imbue with, imbue it, to imbue, imbue everything, more...

Colors:

cerulean, indigo, crimson, emerald, saffron, more...

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