imbue

Other forms of imbue

past tense

imbued·

present participle

imbuing·

third person

imbues·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about imbue

What does imbue mean?

imbue means "spread or diffuse through". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in imbue?

imbue has 2 syllables: im-bue. The stress falls on "bue". In IPA it is /ˌɪmˈbju/.

What is another word for imbue?

Close synonyms include permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is imbue a common word?

imbue is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with imbue?

1 word rhymes with imbue. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.