transitive. To affect or impregnate with a (frequently noxious) substance, sound, taste, or odour; to pollute; to taint.

transitive. To permeate or intersperse (a thing) with an infusion or mixture of something else.

transitive. To saturate, wet thoroughly (with moisture); to dye, tinge, impregnate (with colour or some physical quality).

To fill (a substance or portion of matter) with some active principle, element, or ingredient, diffused through it or mixed intimately with it; to…

figurative. To imbue, v. Cf. French imbiber (see etymology).

= impregnate, v. 3 4.

transitive (in passive). To cause to be concealed, combined, or formed within another substance. Cf. earlier embryonated, adj. 1. Obsolete.