- permeated or inspired, as with an ideal, meaning, characteristic, etc.:The article provides a picture of the Jewish Diaspora and its shift from sacredly imbued patterns to more secular ones.
- saturated or impregnated, as with moisture, color, etc.:Those snow cones you buy at street fairs are all far too sweet and imbued with dye.
- the simple past tense and past participle of imbue.