| 单词 | imbue |
| 释义 | imbue (once / 1899 pages) v To imbue is to fill up with or become "soaked" in an idea or emotion, as a sponge takes in water. One visit to Africa might be enough to imbue ambitions in a medical student to return to heal the sick. You can use imbue in a similar way as "saturate," or "soak through," to describe a filling or absorbing. A "hue" is a color, and it rhymes with imbue. When you're imbued with something, you are, in a way, colored by it. If you imbue a dish sponge with oily orange water from a spaghetti bowl, the color and the oil soak in. To fill people with qualities or emotions is, for example, to imbue them with strength or optimism. WORD FAMILYimbue: imbued, imbues, imbuing USAGE EXAMPLESHis poetry is imbued with the modest substance of his life. The New Yorker(Dec 30, 2016) Mr. Baker imbues the character with a tormented single-mindedness that neatly defines his predicament. New York Times(Dec 29, 2016) In principle, this imbues the system with the capacity to notice latent emotions, just as human therapists do. The New Yorker(Dec 25, 2016) 1v spread or diffuse through Syn|Hypo|Hyper diffuse, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle spiritise, spiritize imbue with a spirit penetrate, perforate pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance 2v fill, soak, or imbue totally Syn|Hypo|Hyper soak infuse, steep let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse brewsit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor marinade, marinatesoak in marinade decoctsteep in hot water infuseundergo the process of infusion drawsteep; pass through a strainer impregnate, saturate infuse or fill completely 3v suffuse with color Syn|Hyper hue color, color in, colorise, colorize, colour, colour in, colourise, colourize add color to |
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