IMBUED Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

imbued

verb

past tense of imbue

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 Her outfit was also imbued with a feminist message that met the moment. — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 29 Aug. 2026 There is a feeling of friendship, or maybe comradery, imbued into the entire enterprise. — Rachel Elspeth Gross, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Houston could soar within it because Parton imbued it with a musical and sentimental purity that made room for the enormity of her expressiveness. — Ann Powers, NPR, 26 Aug. 2026 The music was imbued with grace and dignity in both its most introspective and uplifting moments. — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Aug. 2026 Filled with '90s nostalgia and amulets lifted straight from the original film, this collection spans necklaces, charms, rings, earrings and more, all imbued with the spirit of the Owens sisters' supernatural beauty and charisma. — Kelsey Legg, ABC News, 20 Aug. 2026 If everything is already imbued with the pallor of the dead from the start, then nothing is scary or unexpected. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 19 Aug. 2026 Partial drafts of his work were carried along with him, soaked in Salinger’s sweat and imbued with his raw, instinctive reactions to conflict. — Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026 Your morning of chores or physical activity has imbued you with a sense of achievement and a faint, pleasurable languor. — Aj Willingham, AJC.com, 8 Aug. 2026

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After setting her wildly popular debut The Tiger's Wife in a Balkans suffused with myth and magic, the author turned in subsequent books to the Old West and a city redolent of New York.

— Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
The threat is still there, suffused into the air like a memory, but for a time the choice between love and survival no longer feels mutually exclusive to Nino and Yasmina.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2026

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The spike in arrests comes as the agency, infused with billions of dollars last summer by Congress, has also hired 12,000 new deportation officers and investigative agents.

— Rebecca Santana, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026
The report notes a Tarrant County pilot program that infused American Rescue Plan funding into private childcare centers to raise wages for childcare workers to $18 an hour.

— Lina Ruiz, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Aug. 2026

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