imbued

[ im-byood ]

adjective

1. permeated or inspired, as with an ideal, meaning, characteristic, etc.:

   The article provides a picture of the Jewish Diaspora and its shift from sacredly imbued patterns to more secular ones.

2. saturated or impregnated, as with moisture, color, etc.:

   Those snow cones you buy at street fairs are all far too sweet and imbued with dye.

verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of imbue ( def ).

Other Words From

• un·im·bued adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of imbued¹

imbue ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

She actively, and with glee, imbued their lives with an abundance of misery.

From The Daily Beast

The result is a Shakespeare-imbued tale of the 20th century.

From The Daily Beast

The stories are so minimal that anything could be projected on them and imbued with a significant meaning to its observer.

From The Daily Beast

The beautiful island of Santorini is imbued with the history of some of the earliest civilizations.

From The Daily Beast

The others also seem to have been imbued with a little extra depth.

From The Daily Beast

Becoming imbued also with a high degree of piety, she visited nearly every year a retreat of the Ursulines of Arcis-sur-Aube.

From Project Gutenberg

Imbued with sentiments quite different from ours, she was troubled at the praise addressed to her.

From Project Gutenberg

It retained also much of the spirit of paganism, and never became thoroughly imbued with Christian sentiment.

From Project Gutenberg

Grenville, though not less ready than the king to meet opposition with violent measures, was imbued with whig theories.

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All the red colouring matter, with which it is sometimes imbued, is contributed by streams entering on the southern side.

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