| VERB | contact | imbue, permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, riddle | spread or diffuse through |
|---|---|---|---|
| change | imbue, soak | fill, soak, or imbue totally | |
| change | imbue, hue | suffuse with color |
| Sounds | ihmbyuw' | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | anew ... Yue: 59 rhymes with yuw... | |
| Meaning | Spread or diffuse through. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, riddle | |
| Narrower | spiritize, spiritise | imbue with a spirit / spirit / spirit / spirit |
| Broader | penetrate, perforate | Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance |
| Spanish | difundirse, extenderse, permear | |
| Meaning | Fill, soak, or imbue totally. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s something PP | |
| Synonym | soak | |
| Narrower | brew | Sit or let sit in boiling water so as to extract the flavor |
| steep, infuse | Let sit in a liquid / liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse | |
| Broader | impregnate, saturate | infuse or fill completely |
| Spanish | imbuir, remojar | |
| Catalan | absorbir, amarar-se, amarar, calar-se, remullar-se, remullar, traspassar, xopar-se, xopar | |
| Meaning | suffuse with color. | |
|---|---|---|
| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonym | hue | |
| Broader | color, colorize, colorise, colourise, colourize, colour, color in, colour in | add color to |
| Spanish | imbuir | |
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