imbued
imbued is the simple past and past participle of imbue.
Meaning of imbue
Verb
imbue (third-person singular simple present imbues, present participle imbuing, simple past and past participle imbued)
- 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
- To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
- The shirt was imbued with his scent.
- 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.
Words formed from imbued
Words that rhyme with imbued
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- lewd
- rood
- snood
- Jude
- denude
- extrude
- exude
- feud
- nude
- obtrude
- reclude
- stewed
- subdued
- transclude
- abrood
- delude
- hewed
- intrude
- oud
- pood
- screwed
- seclude
- skewed
- strewed
- thewed
- you'd
- 'tude
- ablude
- abstrude
- accrued
- allude
- blued
- boo'd
- booed
- brewed
- Bude
- chewed
- chud
- clued
- collude
- construed
- cooed
- crewed
- cued
- debuted
- dzud
- fod
- frood
Questions about imbued
- What is imbued the simple past and past participle of?
- Imbued is the simple past and past participle of imbue.
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