imbrue

Verb

Verb Forms: imbrued, imbruing, imbrues

To stain, especially with blood; to soak or drench.
permeate or impregnate
To stain [with in or with ‘blood, slaughter, etc.’].

Examples

A player might imbrue the Scrabble board with tricky words, hoping to trip up their opponent.
My hands were imbrued in his blood.

Origin / Etymology

From Middle English embrewen, from Old French *embrever (whence Middle French embreuver), metathetic variant of embevrer (“to imbibe, steep, penetrate, soak”) (with same stem variation found in French abreuver and beuverie), from Vulgar Latin imbiberāre.

Synonyms

drench

Scrabble Score: 10

imbrue: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Word
imbrue: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
imbrue: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 13

imbrue: valid Words With Friends Word