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imbue Verb

— If you imbue people or things with a quality, idea, or emotion, you fill them with it. In various contexts these concepts may be imbued with various meanings. You take your characters and imbue them with life.

imbue

— verb suffuse with color — verb (= soak) fill, soak, or imbue totally soak the bandage with disinfectant — verb (= permeate, penetrate, diffuse, riddle) spread or diffuse through An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration music penetrated the entire building His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks

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soak saturate impregnate permeate implant fill pervade infuse fill up fill in dye drench complete transfuse tincture teach steep riddle penetrate meet interpenetrate instill indoctrinate inculcate hue fulfil finish diffuse consummate complement wad turn top off tinge throw stuff stain souse sink shed seethe satisfy sate put into prime prepossess plunge perform pack occupy

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Yes, they seem to imbue whoever uttered them with some strange, mystical power.
Imbue these creatures with your strength and force.
I don't imbue it with any.
But I thought that, you know, if I got up on that stage and the spotlight was in my face, that maybe God would imbue my hands with the power of Stevie Ray Vaughn.
It's always good to imbue your major donors with a sense of awe.
Meanwhile, why don't we go take a look at the secret behind Locus Solus' ability to imbue their dolls with soul?
I imbue them with sexual agency.
The trees that imbue the streets of this town keep repeatedly changing their appearance.
You see, I've tried to imbue this store with the same attitude, imagination and emotion as the children who come to play in it, and as such, it is prone to the same outbursts as its sometimes puerile clientele.
Once here, it is to glow and imbue me with great power.
Someone would've had to turn them all on at once, and then imbue them with some kind of malevolent sentience.
The Zeta Beam will imbue your living matter with ionic energy.
It's sai to imbue the rinker with immortality.
He was always able to imbue his products with a magic of big ideas, but Wyatt was the brains.
Each of our activities must be headed by a lady who will imbue her workers with a spirit of self-sacrifice.
I scamper around my house at night to imbue myself with good tidings.
Child, were it not for the flowers you carry which imbue you with an air of innocence, I would curse you where you stand.
To imbue religious instruments with such dark forces would be an ungodly act.
For a powerful nogitsune, one that feeds off chaos, strife and pain, to take control of my weakened body, imbue it with power and use it as a weapon.
Yeah, said to imbue its wielder with the strength of all its previous samurais.
Some magic is too powerful to sustain. So we imbue objects with it.
It is abhorrent for an advanced species to imbue things with power.
You imbue a deeper meaning into the Synod's decision than was intended.
Meanwhile, why don't we go take a look at the secret behind Locus Solus' ability to imbue their dolls with soul? You already know the secret, don't you?
Some folks would like to imbue me with a great deal of power, but it's a mantle I choose not to accept.
You'll introduce yourself as an executive salary-negotiation specialist, which will imbue you with expert authority.
Protectors he would imbue with powers.
The Sisters call upon the power of the angels to imbue our blades with their energy.

News and current affairs

Europe's leaders must imbue their citizens with renewed hope.
But they imbue the Islamic State's project with a powerful historical narrative that cannot be dismissed.
Thus, one great theme of social progress in the last century was to imbue the abstract concept of equal rights with social substance.

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