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 veil functions as a mythic halo that wraps around the female body, concealing it from view while simultaneously subjecting it to control — reducing the woman from a subject to an object, assigning her the status of a commodity imbued with cultural value.
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Ali Farahmand, IndieWire, 8 July 2025
This book, as the interstitial pieces remind us, give us new rituals for looking, exposing the casually oppressive structures of our society and imbuing trash with a newfound sense of purpose.
—Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
Louis Thuillier was distraught by his inability to know the plight of his subjects; to view the photographs from the distance of a century can imbue the viewer with a similar melancholy.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
By creating a fuller picture which centers Medusa in her own story, Hynes creates a more dexterous Medusa, one imbued with more agency and less tragedy.
—Irenosen Okojie
july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
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Ali Farahmand, IndieWire, 8 July 2025
This book, as the interstitial pieces remind us, give us new rituals for looking, exposing the casually oppressive structures of our society and imbuing trash with a newfound sense of purpose.
—Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
Louis Thuillier was distraught by his inability to know the plight of his subjects; to view the photographs from the distance of a century can imbue the viewer with a similar melancholy.
—Ed Caesar, New Yorker, 13 July 2025
By creating a fuller picture which centers Medusa in her own story, Hynes creates a more dexterous Medusa, one imbued with more agency and less tragedy.
—Irenosen Okojie
july 11, Literary Hub, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for imbue
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The notion that Social Security faces a shortfall suffuses the national conversation about retirement.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
24 July 2025
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The one person who actually went to prison for the 2021 shooting death of Rust cinematographer Halyna Hutchins is free just weeks after the tragedy suffused Alec Baldwin starring indie Western premiered and then promptly disappeared in a cloud of box office dust earlier this month.—
Dominic Patten,
Deadline,
25 May 2025
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Once the sugar has been infused with strawberry, add 2.5 oz of water and mix to dissolve it.—
Jillian Dara,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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During a drug and alcohol infused blackout in 1989, Osbourne almost choked his wife Sharon Osbourne to death.—
Daniela Avila,
People.com,
22 July 2025
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“Imbue.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imbue. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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