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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To inspire or influence thoroughly; pervade: work imbued with the revolutionary spirit. See Synonyms at charge.
  2. v. To permeate or saturate.
  3. v. To stain or dye deeply.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To impregnate by steeping or soaking: used especially with reference to dyes.
  2. To tincture deeply; cause to become impregnated or penetrated: as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive : To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
  2. v. In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb.
  2. v. To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. suffuse with color
  2. v. spread or diffuse through
  3. v. fill, soak, or imbue totally

Etymologies

  1. From Latin imbuō ("wet, moisten"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English enbuen, imbeuen, from Latin imbuere, to moisten, stain. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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