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imbuest

imbuest is the second-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about imbuest

What is imbuest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Imbuest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of imbue.

Words near imbuest in the dictionary

  1. imbuement
  2. imbuements
  3. imbuer
  4. imbuers
  5. imbues
  6. imbuest
  7. imbueth
  8. imbuia
  9. imbuias
  10. imbuing
  11. imbunche

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imbuest (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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