imbue

English

Etymology

From Latin imbuō (“wet, moisten”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈbjuː/

Verb

1. (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.

   The shirt was imbued with his scent.

2. In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

   The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.

Usage notes

• Imbue takes meaning from the word imbibe, which means "to absorb or to be filled with".

Derived terms

• imbuement

Translations

to wet or stain completely

• Bulgarian: напоявам (bg) (napojavam), насищам (bg) (nasištam)
• Catalan: imbuir (ca)
• Dutch: nat maken,bevlekken (nl)
• Finnish: kyllästää
• French: imprégner (fr)
• German: tränken (de)
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• Hungarian: átitat (hu)
• Italian: permeare (it), tingere (it)
• Latin: imbuō
• Portuguese: imbuir (pt)
• Romanian: a îmbiba
• Russian: пропи́тывать (ru) impf (propítyvatʹ)

to permeate or impregnate completely

• Bulgarian: пропивам (bg) (propivam)
• Catalan: impregnar (ca)
• Dutch: doortrekken (nl),doordrenken (nl)
• Finnish: kyllästää
• French: imprégner (fr)
• German: durchdringen (de)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Hungarian: átitat (hu)
• Italian: impregnare (it), permeare (it)
• Portuguese: imbuir (pt), impregnar (pt)
• Romanian: a impregna
• Russian: насыща́ть (ru) impf (nasyščátʹ)
• Swedish: genomsyra (sv)

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.by/

Adjective

imbue

1. feminine singular of imbu

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈim.bu.e/, [ˈɪmbuɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈim.bu.e/, [ˈimbue]

Verb

(deprecated template usage) imbue

1. second-person singular present active imperative of imbuō