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Past tense of imbue

regular verb

The past tense of imbue is imbued. The past participle is also imbued.

Forms of imbue

Base form (V1)imbue /ɪmˈbjuː/
Past tense (V2)imbued
Past participle (V3)imbued
Present participleimbuing
Third person singularimbues

Imbued in a sentence

  • The shirt was imbued with his scent.
  • The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.
  • Salvant imbued it with Wilsonian hyperclarity, suavely allowing the tune to indict itself.2015 August 26, Nate Chinen, “Review: Cécile McLorin Salvant Wields Her Power, Drawing From Her Album ‘For One to Love’”, in New York Times. From the entry hyperclarity
  • These internal drives were called "entelechies," and Aristotleians held that the entire universe is imbued with entelechies.2014, Guido Bonino, Greg Jesson, Javier Cumpa, editors, Defending Realism: Ontological and Epistemological Investigations, Berlin: Walter…. From the entry entelechy
  • On the one hand, it was certainly imbued with the desire for change (rampant neophilia).2013, Jonathan Hughes, Simon Sadler, Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Routledge…. From the entry neophilia

Meaning of imbue

  1. verb To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.
  2. verb To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
  3. verb In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

Full definition of imbue

Questions about the past tense of imbue

What is the past tense of imbue?
The past tense of imbue is imbued.
What is the past participle of imbue?
The past participle of imbue is imbued.
Is imbue a regular or irregular verb?
Imbue is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: imbue (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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