Permeates, as with flavor

Usage examples of imbues.

She also imbues all her roles with a girl-next-door amiability that is very attractive.

Neither does the flatness of the acting, a style that served the original, but here grows tiresome and imbues Neo and his band of revolutionaries with the sanctimonious stodginess of B-movie saints.

Saberhagen's narrative juggling is dazzling and imbues the novel's many paradoxes with an elusive grace.

Now if you listen to those who’ve participated in the rite, they’ll claim that a mere sip imbues one with powerful insights, just as though it were an Illumination.

When the sword, blood included is forged, that same blood imbues the metal with supernatural strength.