Mammoth Memory

Imbue – inspire or fill with feeling

PRONOUNCE IMBUE

(Pronounced ihm-byoo)

REMEMBER MEANING OF IMBUE

If someone or something is imbued with an idea, feeling or quality, they are filled with it, or absorb it.

To remember the definition of the word imbue, use the following mnemonic:

It's him, the one covered in the blue (imbue) he's obviously filled the pen with too much blue ink.

 

I'm blue (imbue):  I can't wash it off as my skin has absorbed it.

 

Examples of imbue in a sentence

A feeling of optimism imbues his letter.

She imbued her characters with new depth in her story.

The students sang their school anthem to imbue school spirit among their classmates.

 

 

 

 

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