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imbrue, imbrues, imbruing, imbrued; embrue
1. To wet or to moisten; to soak; to drench in a fluid, chiefly in blood.
2. To saturate or to stain.
3. to impregnate or to imbue: "My parents said we were imbrued with the follies of our youth."
4. Etymology: from Middle English embrowen, embrewen, from Old French embevrer, embreuver, "to give to drink, to moisten", from Vulgar Latin imbiberare, "to give to drink".
2. To saturate or to stain.
3. to impregnate or to imbue: "My parents said we were imbrued with the follies of our youth."
4. Etymology: from Middle English embrowen, embrewen, from Old French embevrer, embreuver, "to give to drink, to moisten", from Vulgar Latin imbiberare, "to give to drink".
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imbrue, imbue
imbrue, embrue (im BROO) (verb)
To discolor or to stain: The weaver used walnut skins to create the dark brown dye with which to imbrue the yarns he was using.
imbue (im BYOO) (verb)
To influence in a permanent fashion: The teacher's new ideas seemed to imbue the students with a keen enthusiasm for their work.
The designer tried to imbue the style of upholstery available in the stores by deciding to imbrue the fabric with multiple hues of green.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group I; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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