Impregnated vs Imbued - What's the difference?
impregnated | imbued |
(imbue)
(transitive): To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.
In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.
As verbs the difference between impregnated and imbued
is that impregnated is past participle of lang=en while imbued is past tense of imbue.imbued
English
Verb
(head)imbue
English
Verb
(imbu)- The shirt was imbued with his scent.
- The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.