- And the chicken was cooked perfectly, tender and thoroughly imbued with the coconut sauce in which it soaked.
- To imbue is to fill up with or become "soaked" in an idea or emotion, as a sponge takes in water.
- One visit to Africa might be enough to imbue ambitions in a medical student to return to heal the sick.
- To fill people with qualities or emotions is, for example, to imbue them with strength or optimism.
- Though it’s now used to describe a large number or unusually large amount of something, the word spate originally described a sudden flood of water, such as a river overflowing after a downpour.
- you encounter an unexpected overflow of anything
- You can also rate something using a scale: "How much do you love pizza? Rate it on a scale of one to ten, with one being blech and ten being amazing."
- Swerve refers to a sudden veering off, perhaps not as sharp as a turn, but more a bending of your path.
- but it's more commonly applied to something so pressing it cannot be put off:
- You may plead with the phone company to give an appointment time that spans only three hours, but, regardless of your pleading, they will make you wait eight hours for the technician to finally show.
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