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Imbrued vs Imbued - What's the difference?

imbrued | imbued |

As verbs the difference between imbrued and imbued

is that imbrued is (imbrue) while imbued is (imbue).

As an adjective imbrued

is (obsolete) stained with blood; wounded, bloody.

imbrued

English

Verb

(head)
  • (imbrue)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Stained with blood; wounded, bloody.
  • *1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.6:
  • *:Whereas she found the Goddesse with her crew, / After late chace of their embrewed game, / Sitting beside a fountaine in a rew [...].
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:He had a sense of his mind, which had been made up, falling to pieces again; but that sense in turn lost itself in a shudder which was already familiar—the horror of the public reappearance, on his part, of the imbrued hands of his mother.
  • (heraldry) Stained with blood.

    • imbued

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (imbue)

    • imbue

    English

    Verb

    (imbu)
  • (transitive): To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
    • The shirt was imbued with his scent.
  • In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
    • The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.

    Usage notes

    * Imbue takes meaning from the word imbibe, which means "to absorb or to be filled with".