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/ɪmˈbjuː/ · verb
(transitive) To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea..
The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.
The shirt was imbued with his scent.
I might leave the answering of one part of the objection to physicians and chymists, who teach, that the antimonial glass and cup imbue wine and other liquors with a strong emetic quality, without any sensible loss of weight.
The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.
Use imbue when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Imbue means (transitive) To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea..
Common synonyms include infuse, pervade, steep, suffuse.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.
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