as in to suffuse
to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle
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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Recent Examples of imbue
The particular bodily plights of the thirty-something jock don’t stem simply from the inherent risk imbued in competitive sports.
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Grace Perry, Outside, 1 Jan. 2026
The industry loves an inside-out moment, and embracing Disney’s most famous—and famously earnest —mascot offers an opportunity to imbue the 97-year-old cartoon rodent with some real edge.
—Faran Krentcil, InStyle, 31 Dec. 2025
During Ghost Month, the seventh month of the Chinese lunisolar calendar, auctioneers sell seemingly ordinary items—backpacks, calculators, tchotchkes—imbued with a spiritual charge thought to bring good luck.
—Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
If New Year’s Eve is about celebration, New Year’s Day is imbued with superstition.
—Vogue, 30 Dec. 2025
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Rafiq suspected that the anxiety suffusing the market had made any pickpockets unlikely to be scoping out potential shoppers.—
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The film draws power from the subtle specificity; Børsum’s voice, low and knowing, comes suffused with an ineffable meaning.—
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This will infuse your space with even more meaning.—
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At the core of it are herbs—grand wormwood, green anise, and fennel—that are infused and re-distilled and flavored usually with more herbs like angelica, star anise, licorice root, and others.—
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So how best to inculcate a creative mindset and unlock the power of AI?—
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The president of the United States has no doubt inculcated a hostility to journalists who do their jobs among his followers.—
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“Imbue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imbue. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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