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embue

embue is the obsolete form of imbue.

Meaning of imbue

Verb

imbue (third-person singular simple present imbues, present participle imbuing, simple past and past participle imbued)

  1. (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.1823, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus, volume 1, London, pages 35-36
  2. (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
    • The shirt was imbued with his scent.
  3. In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
    • The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.

Forms of embue

third-person singular presentembues
present participleembuing
past participleembued
pastembued

Questions about embue

What is embue the obsolete form of?
Embue is the obsolete form of imbue.

Words near embue in the dictionary

  1. Embu
  2. embubble
  3. embubbled
  4. embubbles
  5. embubbling
  6. embue
  7. embued
  8. embues
  9. embugger
  10. embuggerance
  11. embuggerances

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Adapted from Wiktionary: embue (page history and authors); imbue (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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