Imbued vs Imbues - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between imbued and imbues

is that imbued is past tense of imbue while imbues is third-person singular of imbue.

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(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.

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

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