imbue
to fill or inspire someone or something thoroughly with a quality or feeling
Word origin: From Latin imbuere, to wet or steep.
Imbue in a sentence
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Years of travel had imbued her writing with a rare and authentic global perspective.
The director sought to imbue every scene with a sense of impending loss.
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Critics complained that the documentary's narration was relentlessly blank, hammering home its single thesis so often that viewers felt lectured rather than informed.
Using “imbue” well
To imbue is to fill or inspire something thoroughly with a quality or feeling. It is usually constructed as to imbue something with a quality, stressing pervasive saturation.
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