as in suffused
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
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Recent Examples of imbued
Taylor’s cerebral bent is nothing new, but here, it’s imbued with a fresh, tentative sweetness, and anchored by a genuinely swoony summer romance.
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Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
That’s because, as it’s repeated, the masses will start treating the meme as if it’s imbued with meaning.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
In just 43 years, the Canadian star gave us characters imbued with humor, emotion, and an easy honesty.
—Simon Bland, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2025
The production filmed in the Argentinian city of Córdoba and is imbued with local folklore as well as Cotella’s childhood memories.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
The tobacco is imbued with prayer and its smoke takes that prayer to Creator.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
The first game famously took thirst-trap renditions of the Greek pantheon and imbued each figure with an insane amount of charm.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Following their success came a sophomore line filled with international influences—African textiles, midcentury-style seating, and textural sconces imbued with Parisian flair.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2025
The project alternates between details of everyday life—imbued with a surreal, universal quality—and delicate, melancholic landscapes alongside portraits of figures suspended in time, inhabiting their own oneiric world.
—Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
Literary Hub, 16 Oct. 2025
That’s because, as it’s repeated, the masses will start treating the meme as if it’s imbued with meaning.
—Kevin Dolak, HollywoodReporter, 16 Oct. 2025
In just 43 years, the Canadian star gave us characters imbued with humor, emotion, and an easy honesty.
—Simon Bland, IndieWire, 8 Oct. 2025
The production filmed in the Argentinian city of Córdoba and is imbued with local folklore as well as Cotella’s childhood memories.
—Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 8 Oct. 2025
The tobacco is imbued with prayer and its smoke takes that prayer to Creator.
—Frank Vaisvilas, jsonline.com, 1 Oct. 2025
The first game famously took thirst-trap renditions of the Greek pantheon and imbued each figure with an insane amount of charm.
—Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 27 Sep. 2025
Following their success came a sophomore line filled with international influences—African textiles, midcentury-style seating, and textural sconces imbued with Parisian flair.
—Audrey Lee, Architectural Digest, 25 Sep. 2025
The project alternates between details of everyday life—imbued with a surreal, universal quality—and delicate, melancholic landscapes alongside portraits of figures suspended in time, inhabiting their own oneiric world.
—Caterina De Biasio, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imbued
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One of the great pleasures of anime is that its unabashed, rollicky genre pieces are often suffused with grand, but not grandiose, sociopolitical commentary — a heady combination that many similar pictures can’t pull off.—
Declan Gallagher,
Entertainment Weekly,
30 Oct. 2025
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His music, stuffed with live instrumentation and harmonic sophistication, is suffused with the sound and spirit of Sly Stone, Miles Davis, Jimi Hendrix and Marvin Gaye, among many others.—
Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
14 Oct. 2025
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My husband loves that this particular style is infused with a touch of precious metal to give off a slight metallic sheen.—
Katie Jackson,
Travel + Leisure,
26 Oct. 2025
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In addition to cushy armchairs, cafe tables and a retail counter, the new space has a sweeping bar that offers alcohol-free or hemp-infused versions of hard liquors.—
Maia Pandey,
jsonline.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Imbued.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imbued. Accessed 3 Nov. 2025.
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