imbue
verb (used with object)
to impregnate or inspire, as with feelings, opinions, etc..
was imbuing
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past progressiveof imbue.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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It seemed to Gibson that this constant reprogramming, which had become a major driver of economic life, was imbuing the present with a feeling—something like fatigue, or jet lag, or loss.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 9, 2019
It had begun in her advocacy of uprightness after her discovery of the will; it was imbuing her whole nature, making her to her own conscience that which he had called her—a very hypocrite.
From Demos by George Gissing
