tränken — meaning in English

English meaning

• imbue verb To fill someone or something with a quality, feeling or idea so that it spreads through the whole of it.
• soak verb To leave something in liquid until it becomes thoroughly wet.
• Water noun The clear liquid (H2O) that falls as rain and fills rivers, lakes, and seas, essential to all known life.

Senses

tränken is used for these senses in English:

• imbue (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
• soak (transitive) To immerse in liquid to the point of saturation or thorough permeation.
• water (transitive) To wet or supply with water; to moisten; to overflow with water; to irrigate.

imbue — full definition

1. verb To fill someone or something with a quality, feeling or idea so that it spreads through the whole of it.
2. verb To soak or saturate something with a liquid, especially a dye.

soak — full definition

1. verb To leave something in liquid until it becomes thoroughly wet.
2. verb Informal: to charge someone an excessive amount of money.
3. noun A period of being immersed in liquid.

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