Imbue

Definitions: Imbue

Imbue

Verb

1. Spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration".

2. Fill, soak, or imbue totally; "saturate the bandage with disinfectant".

3. Suffuse with color.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "imbue" was first used: some time in the early 15th century. (references)

Note: Imbue \Im*bue"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Imbued; present participle verb or noun Imbuing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Imbue

Insertion

Verb: insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue.

Mixture

Instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.

Moisture

Verb: moisten, wet; humect, humectate; sponge, damp, bedew; imbue, imbrue, infiltrate, saturate; soak, drench. (water).

Teaching

Inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate.

Crosswords: Imbue

Here, one would suppose, might have been sorrow enough to imbue the sunniest disposition, through and through, with a sable tinge.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "imbue": imbue with. Additional references.

Albanian

ngjyej (color, colour, Dunk, dye, make smb. up, pepper, plaster, soak), ngij (glut, sate, satiate), mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out). (various references)

Arabic 

‏صبغ (color, colour, dye, dyestuff, pigment, pigmentation, tincture), ‏صب (cast, casting, cut, decant, discharge, flow, infusion, lave, molding, moulding, paint, pigment, pour, rain, shaping, teem), ‏شرب فكرة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

вдъхвам (ensoul, implant, inbreathe, inform, inhale, inoculate, inspire, prepossess, prompt, snort), обагрям (become purple, color, colour, dye, empurple, imbrue, incarnadine, mantle, parboil, pigment, purple, tint), насаждам (engraft, fix, implant, inculcate, inform, instill, plant, set, set out), насищам (glut, impregnate, penetrate, permeate, satiate, saturate, slake), напоявам (drench, impregnate, irrigate, penetrate, saturate, soak, water). (various references)

Chinese 

灌�" (imbued, Imbuing, indoctrinate, Indoctrinated, Indoctrinating, infuse, Infused, Infusing), 漸 (gradual, gradually). (various references)

Czech

vštípit komu co (bring smth. home to smb.), naplnit koho èím, dodat komu èeho. (various references)

Farsi 

ملهم کردن , خوب نفوذکردن , خوب رنگ گرفتن , اغشتن (Indoctrinate, Inoculate, Saturate, Smear, Welter), اشباع کردن (Glut, Imbibe, Indoctrinate, Inundate, Steep, Suffuse), رسوخ کردن در. (various references)

French

imprégner (impregnate). (various references)

German

erfüllen (accomplish, achieve, carry out, carry through, come up to, comply, comply with, discharge, fill, fill in, fill up, fulfil, fulfill, implement, impregnate, inform, keep, make, meet, observe, perform, pervade, preoccupy, prepossess, redeem, satisfy, serve, to comply, transfuse), durchdringen (come through, get through, impregnate, infiltrate, inform, penetrate, penetration, permeate, pervade, Pierce, thrill, to pervade, to soak, transfuse). (various references)

Greek 

εμποτίζω (impregnate, ingrain, soak). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שרות (dip, inspire, ret, soak, steep), ל�"ח�"יר (instill). (various references)

Hungarian

telít (saturate, to impregnate, to prime, to saturate, to steep), átáztat (drench, to drench, to souse, to steep). (various references)

Italian

impregnare (be filled, become impregnated, become soaked, fill, impregnate, soak, steep, waterlog), imbevere (drench, soak, waterlog), permeare (permeate). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

注ぎ込む (to imbue, to implant, to impregnate, to infuse, to inject, to instill, to invest in, to pour into, to put into). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そそぎ�"む (to imbue, to implant, to impregnate, to infuse, to inject, to instill, to invest in, to pour into, to put into), つぎ�"む (to imbue, to implant, to impregnate, to infuse, to inject, to instill, to invest in, to pour into, to put into). (various references)

Pig Latin

imbueay.(various references)

Portuguese

impregnar (engrained, imbibe, impregnate, interfuse, leavening, line of action, penetrate, pervade, saturate), imbuir (leaven, pervasion), ensopar (drown, Dunk, soak, sop), embeber (absorb, Dunk, imbibe, imbrue, impregnate, soak, steep). (various references)

Romanian

insufla (breathe into, inform, infuse, inject, inspire with, instil, insufflate, prompt), impregna (engrain, permeate, process), satura (glut, impregnate, replete, saturate), îmbiba (penetrate, soak, steep). (various references)

Russian 

вдохнуть (inbreathe, inspirit, take a breath), вдохновлять (inspire, prepossess), насыщать (fill, impregnate, medicate, sate, sates, satiate, saturate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zadojiti (inspire), prožimati (permeate, pervade), prožeti (consume, impregnate, permeate). (various references)

Spanish

imbuir (impregnate), empapar (drench, impregnate, permeate, pervade, saturate, soak, soak up, souse, steep). (various references)

Swedish

genomsyra (leaven, permeate, saturate, steep), genomdränka (drench, impregnate, infiltrate, saturate, soak). (various references)

Thai

้ชุ่มโชก�"้วย, ทำให้เต็มไป�"้วย. (various references)

Turkish

telkin etmek (command, inculcate, indoctrinate, infix, infuse into, inspire, preach, suggest), kafasına sokmak (beat smth. into smb.'s head, embed, inculcate, infix, infuse, inseminate, put smb. in mind of, whip), dolduruşa getirmek (envenom), aşılamak (bud, engraft, envenom, fertilize, graft, impregnate, indoctrinate, infect, infuse into, ingraft, inoculate, inspire, instil, instill, pass on an ilness, plant, suggest, transfuse, vaccinate). (various references)

Turkmen 

tьmmeklemek (crowd). (various references)

Ukranian 

фарбувати (bepaint, color, dye, paint), насичувати (charge, impregnate, medicate, sate, satiate, saturate), надихати (animate, cheer, ensoul, fire, inspire, inspirit, invigorate, lift, prepossess, spiritualize, warm). (various references)

Welsh

trwytho (saturate, steep). (various references)

imbibere, infecta, infectum, inficio infeci infectum, perfuderit, perfudisti, perfunderentur, perfusa, perfusam. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "imbue": imbued, imbues. (additional references)

Words containing "imbue": unimbued. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Imbue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Embu, embue, enbue, gmbtu, ibee, Ibew, ibm-er, Ibmol, iboe, imb, imba, imbide, imbile, imbu, imbube, imbude, imbuer, imbuse, Imbuya, immue, imu, inbue, Inqua, inue, Nimue, ombu, Rimbu, umbue. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: bum, emu, mib.

-3 letters: be, bi, em, me, mi, mu, um.

+1 letter: erbium, imbrue, imbued, imbues.

+2 letters: bitumen, bumpier, erbiums, imbrued, imbrues, imbrute, subitem, sublime, terbium.

+3 letters: aerobium, bdellium, bemusing, biennium, bitumens, brumbies, brunizem, bumpiest, cherubim, crumbier, embruing, iambuses, imbruted, imbrutes, incumber, limbuses, misbegun, nimbused, nimbuses, nobelium, resubmit, subitems, sublimed, sublimer, sublimes, terbiums, umbering, unimbued, unlimber.

+4 letters: bacterium, bdelliums, bedumbing, benumbing, berkelium, beryllium, bienniums, brunizems, bumpering, bumpiness, cherubims, columbine, columbite, crumbiest, crumblier, cumbering, embruting, herbarium, homebuilt, immutable, imputable, incumbent, incumbers, lumbering, minibuses, nobeliums, numbering, omnibuses, reimburse, resubmits, sublimate, sublimely, sublimers, sublimest, submarine, submitted, unamiable, underbrim, unlimbers, unmixable, upclimbed, ytterbium.

+5 letters: abstemious, ambisexual, automobile, bejumbling, bemuddling, bemuzzling, berkeliums, berylliums, besmudging, besmutting, bethumping, bigmouthed, bituminize, buttermilk, columbines, columbites, combustive, crumbliest, disembogue, dumbwaiter, herbariums, impugnable, incumbency, incumbents, incumbered, lambrequin, microbuses, minibusses, misdoubted, mulberries, muliebrity, multilobed, numbfishes, omnibusses, outbeaming, outclimbed, plumberies, reimbursed, reimburses, replumbing, seaborgium, semipublic, slumbering, sublimable, sublimated, sublimates, submarined, submariner, submarines, submediant, submerging, submersing, submersion, submissive, subprimate, tambourine, thimbleful, umbellifer, umbilicate, unbecoming, uncombined, underbrims, unlimbered, ytterbiums.

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