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.

Other Word Forms

• unimbued adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of imbued¹

imbue ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

Both of Mr. Smith’s parents fled the Jim Crow South, met in Washington and imbued their son with ambition, purpose and tenacity.

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This one goes out to Jess, whose designs have imbued each issue with a generous, overflowing spirit.

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For a generation slandered as sexless and terminally stilted, Sombr has done a hard trick — imbued indie rock with a generationally fresh, fully-articulated sense of young male desire and ran it up the pop charts.

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It’s running this month at the Heritage Square Museum, itself a location imbued with history and mystery, the site of the homes of Los Angeles as they existed a century ago.

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The crowd’s alternative style was imbued with Latin flair: Latinos in black vaquero boots clicked their heels against the concrete, while lace veils flowed above their carefully teased hair.

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