transitive. To instil in (someone) an opinion or belief, esp. a pernicious one, as heresy or seditious views. Of an (esp. pernicious) opinion…

To impregnate, permeate, pervade, or inspire (with opinions, feelings, habits, etc.).

With inverted constr.: To affect or act upon (a liquid) by steeping some soluble substance in it; hence, to imbue or inspire (a person or thing) with…

figurative. To steep in; to imbue with; to infect.

To imbue with. Obsolete. rare.

figurative. To imbue or fill with (active thoughts, feelings, principles, influences, moral qualities, etc.).

figurative. transitive. To imbue (a person) with a feeling, opinion, habit, etc.; to instil a feeling, opinion, habit, etc., in (a person).

To imbue with a doctrine, idea, or opinion. spec. To imbue with Communist ideas, etc. (cf. indoctrination, n.).

transitive. To practise brainwashing on, to pressurize or coerce into a belief.