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imbue (verb) –
1 : endow – ‘Spanish missions imbue the city with Old World charm’
2 : to permeate or influence as if by dyeing – ‘the spirit that imbues the new constitution’
3 : to tinge or dye deeply
Source : Merriam -Webster
Etymology : Like its synonym infuse, imbue implies the introduction of one thing into another so as to affect it throughout. A nation can be imbued with pride, for example, or a photograph might be imbued with a sense of melancholy. In the past imbue has also been used synonymously with imbrue, an obscure word meaning “to drench or stain,” but etymologists do not think the two words are related. Imbue derives from the Latin verb imbuere, meaning “to dye, wet, or moisten.” Imbrue has been traced back through Anglo-French and Old French to the Latin verb bibere, meaning “to drink.”
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