imbue

imbue

verb

Definition of IMBUE

to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle <her training at the school for the deaf imbued her with a sense of purpose that she had never known before>

Synonyms endue (or indue), imbue, inculcate, ingrain (also engrain), inoculate, invest, steep, suffuse

Related Words animate, charge, enliven, invigorate, leaven; implant, instill, plant; impregnate, permeate, pervade, saturate; deluge, drown, fill, flood, inundate, overwhelm, submerge

Near Antonyms deprive, divest, strip; clear, empty; eliminate, remove, take away