as in suffuses
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 imbues
As in Pillion and elsewhere, Melling imbues a premise’s potential grotesqueries with real and specific feelings.
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Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026
Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia only in 1991, and for this young nation, sport imbues it with a sense of pride.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Kikuchi, for her part, imbues the character with dimensions by turns gentle and thorny, but Haru’s unwillingness to meaningfully confront her loss is a blind spot that ends up applied to the story as a whole.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
Farr recorded the album on vintage TASCAM multi-track recorders and did his overdubs on reel-to-reel tape, a finicky process that stretches the tape and imbues the music with the ghosts of previous takes.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
That can happen when a performer imbues her character with her own nature.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
This technological capability not only protects the lending institution but also imbues a sense of urgency that helps keep things moving.
—Geoff Green, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
This imbues the network with a type of memory, where a particular input can keep coming back around.
—Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2025
With references to the dark glamour trend, Brown’s dress imbues Victorian corsetry with contemporary elements.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2026
Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia only in 1991, and for this young nation, sport imbues it with a sense of pride.
—Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026
Kikuchi, for her part, imbues the character with dimensions by turns gentle and thorny, but Haru’s unwillingness to meaningfully confront her loss is a blind spot that ends up applied to the story as a whole.
—Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 23 Jan. 2026
Farr recorded the album on vintage TASCAM multi-track recorders and did his overdubs on reel-to-reel tape, a finicky process that stretches the tape and imbues the music with the ghosts of previous takes.
—Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026
That can happen when a performer imbues her character with her own nature.
—Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 5 Jan. 2026
This technological capability not only protects the lending institution but also imbues a sense of urgency that helps keep things moving.
—Geoff Green, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2025
This imbues the network with a type of memory, where a particular input can keep coming back around.
—Dina Genkina, IEEE Spectrum, 16 Dec. 2025
With references to the dark glamour trend, Brown’s dress imbues Victorian corsetry with contemporary elements.
—Julia Teti, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for imbues
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Patriotism suffuses the Made in America movement.—
Daniel de Visé,
USA Today,
29 Nov. 2025
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An international cult favorite, Lee is revered for the philosophical nerve that suffuses his rigorously inventive melodramas, which variously pick apart the complexities of Korean society.—
Patrick Brzeski,
HollywoodReporter,
4 Aug. 2025
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Here, the irregularity of the flat stones infuses earthy charm and visual intrigue into the space, while also blending naturally into the landscape.—
Wendy Rose Gould,
Martha Stewart,
20 Feb. 2026
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The $95, five-course meal led by women food and beverage professionals will feature an exclusive collaboration beer between the breweries that infuses ingredients from Deep Roots CPS Farm.—
Heidi Finley,
Charlotte Observer,
20 Feb. 2026
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“Imbues.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/imbues. Accessed 24 Feb. 2026.
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