imbue
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
imbue /ɪmˈbjuː/
▶verb (imbues, imbuing, imbued) (often be imbued with) fill with a feeling or quality.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘saturate’): from Fr. imbu ‘moistened’, from L. imbut-, imbuere ‘moisten’.
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