Imbue
verb
To make someone or something have a certain quality or feeling.
The new coach is set to imbue the team with a renewed sense of confidence.
Often appears as...
- imbue with belief
- imbue with skills
verb
To soak or fill completely with a substance or quality.
By the end of the training course, the students were imbued with the principles of the company's work culture.
Often appears as...
- imbue with knowledge
- imbue with understanding
verb
To inspire or influence thoroughly.
The writer's work was imbued with a sense of social justice.
Often appears as...
- imbue with passion
- imbue with values
verb
To make someone or something have a certain quality or feeling.
The new coach is set to imbue the team with a renewed sense of confidence.
Often appears as...
- imbue with belief
- imbue with skills
verb
To soak or fill completely with a substance or quality.
By the end of the training course, the students were imbued with the principles of the company's work culture.
Often appears as...
- imbue with knowledge
- imbue with understanding
verb
To inspire or influence thoroughly.
The writer's work was imbued with a sense of social justice.
Often appears as...
- imbue with passion
- imbue with values
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Charge
Imbue often carries an emotional weight, suggesting a depth of feeling or quality added.
The ceremony was imbued with solemnity.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Transformation
Imbue is frequently used when positive traits or feelings are instilled into a person or group.
The mentor aimed to imbue her students with confidence.
Pro Tip 3/3Deep Influence
Using 'imbue' implies a lasting or profound influence on someone or something.
Her speech imbued the crowd with a sense of purpose.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Charge
Imbue often carries an emotional weight, suggesting a depth of feeling or quality added.
The ceremony was imbued with solemnity.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Transformation
Imbue is frequently used when positive traits or feelings are instilled into a person or group.
The mentor aimed to imbue her students with confidence.
Pro Tip 3/3Deep Influence
Using 'imbue' implies a lasting or profound influence on someone or something.
Her speech imbued the crowd with a sense of purpose.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Charge
Imbue often carries an emotional weight, suggesting a depth of feeling or quality added.
The ceremony was imbued with solemnity.
Pro Tip 2/3Positive Transformation
Imbue is frequently used when positive traits or feelings are instilled into a person or group.
The mentor aimed to imbue her students with confidence.
Pro Tip 3/3Deep Influence
Using 'imbue' implies a lasting or profound influence on someone or something.
Her speech imbued the crowd with a sense of purpose.
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Why are we so attached...
were somehow imbued with the essence of their former celebrity owners. For similar reasons, many of us are reluctant to part with family heirlooms which help us feel connected to lost loved ones. These beliefs can even alter our perception of the physical world and change our athletic abilities.
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Art and architecture...
cityscapes in landscapes and realizing them in creating them imbued with utopian or dystopian ideals depending on whatever the conceptual framework is so that said this is the gap map and in the project it's actually a project narrative it's actually owned by gap but
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An artist's unflinching...
from tourist shops and flea markets around the world. The authenticity and origin of them is completely debatable, but people believe these to be imbued with power, or even magic. Only recently have I figured out how to use this in my own work.
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Pointing to the future...
he was talking about the circumstances of its creation and of its existence. And I think that it's time that we asked for the same from technology. Technology is capable of expressing and being imbued with a certain generosity,
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Mind Blown - Hangout to...
something that was evolutionarily advantageous because it imbued our life with a sense of cosmic significance and meaning you know in other words the unique so here a human ability to just contemplate to marvel to awe made us
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Cradle to cradle design...
and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence, and so as we look back at the basic state of affairs in which we design, we, in a way, need to go to the primordial condition
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The perks of being a...
We're merely a blip on the time line of the universe, right? Act accordingly. Now the ideas that I'm presenting today were imbued upon me through some otherwise unfortunate circumstances, granted,
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How your emotions change...
No other organ, perhaps no other object in human life, is as imbued with metaphor and meaning as the human heart. Over the course of history, the heart has been a symbol of our emotional lives.
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Exploring Rodeo,...
Photos are imbued with a lot, and they're shaped and determined by where the photographer stands and the moment that the photographer chooses. And that's a lot of responsibility,
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Is life meaningless? And...
his ideas defiantly imbuing a senseless world with inspiration rather than defeat.
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Why are we so attached...
were somehow imbued with the essence of their former celebrity owners. For similar reasons, many of us are reluctant to part with family heirlooms which help us feel connected to lost loved ones. These beliefs can even alter our perception of the physical world and change our athletic abilities.
Video examples
Art and architecture...
cityscapes in landscapes and realizing them in creating them imbued with utopian or dystopian ideals depending on whatever the conceptual framework is so that said this is the gap map and in the project it's actually a project narrative it's actually owned by gap but
Video examples
An artist's unflinching...
from tourist shops and flea markets around the world. The authenticity and origin of them is completely debatable, but people believe these to be imbued with power, or even magic. Only recently have I figured out how to use this in my own work.
Video examples
Pointing to the future...
he was talking about the circumstances of its creation and of its existence. And I think that it's time that we asked for the same from technology. Technology is capable of expressing and being imbued with a certain generosity,
Video examples
Mind Blown - Hangout to...
something that was evolutionarily advantageous because it imbued our life with a sense of cosmic significance and meaning you know in other words the unique so here a human ability to just contemplate to marvel to awe made us
Video examples
Cradle to cradle design...
and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence, and so as we look back at the basic state of affairs in which we design, we, in a way, need to go to the primordial condition
Video examples
The perks of being a...
We're merely a blip on the time line of the universe, right? Act accordingly. Now the ideas that I'm presenting today were imbued upon me through some otherwise unfortunate circumstances, granted,
Video examples
How your emotions change...
No other organ, perhaps no other object in human life, is as imbued with metaphor and meaning as the human heart. Over the course of history, the heart has been a symbol of our emotional lives.
Video examples
Exploring Rodeo,...
Photos are imbued with a lot, and they're shaped and determined by where the photographer stands and the moment that the photographer chooses. And that's a lot of responsibility,
Video examples
Is life meaningless? And...
his ideas defiantly imbuing a senseless world with inspiration rather than defeat.
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Wilbur Smith
Novelist
I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.
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Tony Bradman
English Writer
I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.
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Ariel Levy
American Writer
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.
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Janet Evanovich
American Writer
Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.
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Hilary Farr
British Designer
London imbued me with an appreciation of the beauty and value of history in general. As it has evolved and grown, the city has created iconic modern buildings that look perfect as they sit alongside ancient ones.
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Joaquin Phoenix
American Actor
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
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Kathi Appelt
American Writer
The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.
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Ethan Canin
American Author
Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.
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Martin Freeman
English Actor
I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.
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Simon Helberg
American Actor
I am fairly physically aware and agile, and I imbue that into the characters I play.
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Wilbur Smith
Novelist
I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.
Quote examples
Tony Bradman
English Writer
I don't usually like teen novels written in the present tense, particularly those told from a first-person viewpoint. Too many writers seem to believe that using either or both devices automatically imbues their stories with deep seriousness and a contemporary feel.
Quote examples
Ariel Levy
American Writer
There is a widespread assumption that simply because my generation of women has the good fortune to live in a world touched by the feminist movement, that means everything we do is magically imbued with its agenda, but it doesn't work that way.
Quote examples
Janet Evanovich
American Writer
Community, responsibility, flexibility, tenacity - these are all things that I imbue my characters with. They are basically good, nonjudgmental people who succeed at the end of the day, sometimes in spite of themselves.
Quote examples
Hilary Farr
British Designer
London imbued me with an appreciation of the beauty and value of history in general. As it has evolved and grown, the city has created iconic modern buildings that look perfect as they sit alongside ancient ones.
Quote examples
Joaquin Phoenix
American Actor
In most films - especially in regards to the protagonist - really from the get-go they set up some scenario that endears that character to the audience. Or imbues him with some nobility or heroism or something.
Quote examples
Kathi Appelt
American Writer
The moments that I feel the most imbued with a sense of awe are always the moments when I am outdoors. I can't help but feel a certain sense of wonder - I become almost filled with it.
Quote examples
Ethan Canin
American Author
Families tend to artificially divide the world, imbuing one member with all the attributes and another with all the faults. But it's never that way.
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Martin Freeman
English Actor
I'm afraid I don't have a very pragmatic or unromantic view of props. I don't imbue them with any great sense of mystery or anything.
Quote examples
Simon Helberg
American Actor
I am fairly physically aware and agile, and I imbue that into the characters I play.
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