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IMBUE (5)

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imbued with power

imbue

soak, imbue - v
fill, soak, or imbue totally; "soak the bandage with disinfectant"

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synonyms

endue (or indue), inculcate, infuse, ingrain (also engrain), inoculate, invest, steep, suffuse

in a sentence

A feeling of optimism imbues her works.

her training at the school for the deaf imbued her with a sense of purpose that she had never known before

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etymology

early 15c., "to keep wet; to soak, saturate;" also figuratively "to cause to absorb" (feelings, opinions, etc.), from Latin imbuere "moisten, wet, soak, saturate," figuratively "to fill; to taint," a word of uncertain origin, perhaps from the same root as imbrication. Compare also Old French embu, past participle of emboivre, from Latin imbibere "drink in, soak in" (see imbibe), which might have influenced the English word. Related: Imbued; imbuing.

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