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Definition of Imbue
1. Verb. Spread or diffuse through. "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
Generic synonyms: Penetrate, Perforate
Specialized synonyms: Spiritise, Spiritize
Derivative terms: Diffusion, Diffusive, Diffusor, Diffusor, Interpenetration, Penetrative, Permeant, Permeation, Permeation, Permeative, Pervasion, Pervasive
2. Verb. Fill, soak, or imbue totally. "Water and alcohol imbue the cloth"; "Soak the bandage with disinfectant"
Specialized synonyms: Infuse, Steep, Brew
Generic synonyms: Impregnate, Saturate
Derivative terms: Soak
3. Verb. Suffuse with color.
Generic synonyms: Color, Color In, Colorise, Colorize, Colour, Colour In, Colourise, Colourize
Derivative terms: Hue
Definition of Imbue
1. v. t. To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.
Definition of Imbue
1. Verb. (transitive) : To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality. ¹
2. Verb. In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Imbue
1. to make thoroughly wet [v -BUED, -BUING, -BUES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbue
Literary usage of Imbue
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
".V -w••. unexampled, is necessary in English, nn- lens the word imbue be adopted,
which our writers seem not willing to receive. IMBI'BER. nj [from imbibe. ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"Cruel and relentless tyrants of the Congress and mankind, were in greedy expectation,
to satiate their unbounded malice and resentment, and even imbue their ..."
3. A Biographical History of Lancaster County: Being a History of Early by Alexander Harris (1872)
"Nobler sentiments than imbue his whole life and conversation, never influenced
a Socrates, a Seneca, or a Confucius; and not in act only, but in thought ..."
4. A Sketch of the History of Attleborough: From Its Settlement to the Division by John Daggett, Amelia Daggett Shellfield (1894)
"He was a severe taskmaster, but he seemed to incite in his pupils a desire for
knowledge and to imbue them with enthusiasm in the pursuit of it ; and many ..."
5. A Cyclopedia of American Medical Biography: Comprising the Lives of Eminent by Howard Atwood Kelly (1912)
"... the glori ous discoveries of Laennec, and to imbue the students with his own
enthusiastic love of science. His strength was in his clinical teaching, ..."
6. The First Settlers of New-England, Or, Conquest of the Pequods, Narragansets by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1829)
"... missionaries to impart to the heathen the pure light of the gospel, why have
we neglected to imbue the minds of our own people with its heavenly truths? ..."
7. A Few Lectures on Natural Law by Henry St. George Tucker (1844)
"ficient modes of preventing it I deem to be that which it has been my object to
pursue: to imbue the minds of those who are at some future day to be the ..."
8. The Diary of the Revolution: A Centennial Volume Embracing the Current by Frank Moore (1876)
"Cruel and relentless tyrants of the Congress and mankind, were in greedy expectation,
to satiate their unbounded malice and resentment, and even imbue their ..."
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