IMBUE
What does "IMBUE" mean?
To fill or inspire something thoroughly with a feeling, quality, or idea.
Meanings
- To permeate or saturate with a quality, emotion, or principle. The coach imbued the team with a quiet, unbreakable confidence.
- To soak, stain, or dye; to saturate with a liquid or color. The cloth was imbued with deep indigo dye. archaic
Did you know?
- To 'imbue' originally meant to physically soak or stain something with liquid; the modern sense of filling a person with a feeling is a metaphor of dyeing.
Word origin
From Latin 'imbuere' (to wet, soak, moisten, stain), from 'in-' (in) plus a root meaning to drench; the figurative sense of saturating with a quality came to dominate in English.
Remember it
IMBUE sounds like 'in-brew' - tea leaves brewing in water, soaking color and flavor into everything they touch.
A little poem
Drop one word into a child like ink to water -
watch it bloom, thread through, refuse to settle.
Years on, you'll find it tinting every thought.
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What it teaches
You imbue others quietly; what you steep them in early is what colors them long after you have gone.
Quick facts
What does IMBUE mean?
To fill or inspire something thoroughly with a feeling, quality, or idea.
Is IMBUE a valid word?
Yes — IMBUE is one of the answer words in Wordul, the daily word game.
How many letters is IMBUE?
IMBUE has 5 letters and 2 syllables.
Where does IMBUE come from?
From Latin 'imbuere' (to wet, soak, moisten, stain), from 'in-' (in) plus a root meaning to drench; the figurative sense of saturating with a quality came to dominate in English.
What can IMBUE teach us?
You imbue others quietly; what you steep them in early is what colors them long after you have gone.
How players do
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