To thoroughly fill or inspire something with a quality, feeling, or color; to soak something completely.
From Latin 'imbuere,' meaning 'to soak or stain.' The word combines 'in-' (in) and 'buere' (to dip), so it originally meant to dip something into liquid until it was thoroughly saturated.
The word 'imbued' is fascinating because it works for both physical soaking (like a cloth imbued with dye) and emotional filling (a speech imbued with hope)—language lets us see how deep saturation and deep feeling share the same structure.
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