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Definition of imbue : 1. To tincture deply; to cause to become impressed or penetrated; as, to imbue the minds of youth with good principles.
2. To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

Synonyms:

come home, inebriate, dawn, broadcast, pawn, pluck, bottom, hit it up, filter, percolate, interpenetrate, plume, click, get through, fall into place, spread, screen, diffuse, hook, tinge, hue, surcharge, fan out, rob, get across, propagate, sink in, intoxicate, perforate, overcharge, fathom, circularize, distribute, sop, souse, transfuse, spread out, full, disperse, circulate, dowse, disseminate, circularise, freight, charge, pass around, hock, fleece, gazump, riddle

douse, sluice, flood, soak, swamp, deluge, drench, saturate, slosh, submerge, rinse, immerse, shower, drown, engulf, inundate

educate, drill, indoctrinate, guide, instruct, instill, train, lecture, edify, enlighten, school, tutor, coach, inculcate, teach

infiltrate, permeate, fill, suffuse, penetrate, impregnate, glut, seethe, infuse, pervade

Usage examples:

• Remember, O Lord, in mercy and imbue their souls with patience under this affliction. - "Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror", Richard Linthicum Trumbull White Samuel Fallows.
• Let me drink the hue Of iron- weed and mist- flow'r here that hint, With purple and blue, The rapture that your presence doth imbue Their inmost essence with, Immortal though as transient as a myth. - "Kentucky Poems", Madison J. Cawein Commentator: Edmund Gosse.
• To begin with criticism, we are quite unconvinced that science alone can train the mind to logical methods, or imbue it with a respect for truth in matters outside the scientific sphere. - "The School and the World", Victor Gollancz and David Somervell.