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Imbue vs Implant - What's the difference?

imbue | implant |

As verbs the difference between imbue and implant

is that imbue is (transitive): to wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality while implant is .

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".

    implant

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To fix firmly or set securely or deeply.
  • To insert (something) surgically into the body.
  • Of an embryo, to become attached to and embedded in the womb.
  • Synonyms

    * (fix firmly or set securely or deeply ): embed/imbed, engraft, engrain, graft, insert, instil/instill, plant, root * (insert (something) surgically into the body''): graft (''from another part of the body )

    Derived terms

    * implantable

    Noun

    (wikipedia implant) (en noun)
  • Anything surgically implanted in the body, such as a tissue graft or prosthesis, particularly (breast implant)s.
  • (travel) A representative of a travel company, working within the office of a large client and exclusively dealing with that client.
  • Derived terms

    * (breast implant) (l)