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 The duo also tapped Bamford Watch Department to help bring the new timepiece imbued in racing heritage to life. — Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 30 July 2026 That all culminated in a press conference at the FFF headquarters in Paris on Tuesday to announce Zidane’s appointment on a four-year contract, although this was imbued with far more drama than a standard managerial unveiling. — Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 28 July 2026 The pieces in this collection are imbued with the handmade texture and visual style of the art form, which dovetails perfectly with Pierce & Ward’s reputation for creating and curating pieces that carry a sense of history. — Julia Harrison, Architectural Digest, 27 July 2026 Not just any pop-up book, however, but the world’s largest — one imbued with an artist’s connection to the library, and one that celebrates the library itself amid its 100th anniversary. — Paris Barraza, USA Today, 24 July 2026 What the museum surely didn’t expect was for the trophy to arrive freshly imbued with New York history. — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 23 July 2026 However, in my experience, the more important fix is ensuring that data is imbued with trusted context. — Saurabh Gupta, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026 It’s imbued with all the same erotic and mythological energy. — Sheila Heti, The New York Review of Books, 21 July 2026 Fortunately our lead dog was imbued with a caution which is not always found in his kind. — Frank C. Hibben, Outdoor Life, 15 July 2026

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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
Good binoculars will reveal a score of stars in this little group, while long-exposure observatory photographs show about 1000 in the area — all suffused in great clouds and streamers of nebulous light.

— Joe Rao, Space.com, 10 July 2026

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It’s also infused with ingredients like vitamin E and paracress, which nourish your skin.

— Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 28 July 2026
They’re infused with the brand’s low molecular collagen, which helps boost skin elasticity; that’s noteworthy since most collagen molecules are too large to penetrate skin.

— Deanna Pai, Vogue, 27 July 2026

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