![]() | ![]() | ||||||||
Get Word of the Day on your mobile phone | |||||||||
Word of the Day for Sunday, July 19, 2009imbue \im-BYOO\, transitive verb: 1. To tinge or dye deeply; to cause to absorb thoroughly; as, "clothes thoroughly imbued with black." Beauty is equal parts flesh and imagination: we imbue it with our dreams, saturate it with our longings. Along with the rest of us he would certainly applaud attempts to imbue the young with the spirit of fair play. He wanted to remake American cinema into a positive force for good, to imbue it with a transcendent sense of virtue and order. Imbue comes from Latin imbuere, "to wet, to steep, to saturate." | |||||||||
Get Word of the Day on your mobile phone | |||||||||
|

No comments:
Post a Comment