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All imbue synonyms

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verb imbue

  • permeate — to pass into or through every part of: Bright sunshine permeated the room.
  • ingrain — to implant or fix deeply and firmly, as in the nature or mind.
  • suffuse — to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
  • inculcate — to implant by repeated statement or admonition; teach persistently and earnestly (usually followed by upon or in): to inculcate virtue in the young.
  • pervade — to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.
  • leaven — a substance, as yeast or baking powder, that causes fermentation and expansion of dough or batter.
  • steep — having an almost vertical slope or pitch, or a relatively high gradient, as a hill, an ascent, stairs, etc.
  • instill — to infuse slowly or gradually into the mind or feelings; insinuate; inject: to instill courtesy in a child.
  • bathe — If you bathe in a sea, river, or lake, you swim, play, or wash yourself in it. Birds and animals can also bathe.
  • impregnate — to make pregnant; get with child or young.
  • invest — to put (money) to use, by purchase or expenditure, in something offering potential profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value.
  • inoculate — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
  • infix — to fix, fasten, or drive in: He infixed the fatal spear.
  • diffuse — to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
  • instil — instill.
  • fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
  • infuse — to introduce, as if by pouring; cause to penetrate; instill (usually followed by into): The energetic new principal infused new life into the school.
  • saturate — to cause (a substance) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance, through solution, chemical combination, or the like.

noun imbue

  • tincture — Pharmacology. a solution of alcohol or of alcohol and water, containing animal, vegetable, or chemical drugs.
  • imbrue — to stain: He refused to imbrue his hands with the blood of more killing.
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