imbuir — 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.
• steep adj Rising or falling at a sharp angle, close to vertical.

Senses

imbuir is used for these senses in English:

• imbue (transitive) To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
• imbue In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
• steep (intransitive, figurative) To imbue with something; to be deeply immersed in.

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.

steep — full definition

1. adj Rising or falling at a sharp angle, close to vertical.
2. adj Very expensive or unreasonably high, said of a price.
3. verb To soak something in liquid, often to extract flavor.

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