imbue

To instill or inspire (someone) with a certain quality, feeling, or idea.

The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.

To wet or stain an object completely with some physical quality.

The shirt was imbued with his scent.

I might leave the answering of one part of the objection to physicians and chymists, who teach, that the antimonial glass and cup imbue wine and other liquors with a strong emetic quality, without any sensible loss of weight.

In general, to act in a way which results in an object becoming completely permeated or impregnated by some quality.

The entire text is imbued with the sense of melancholy and hopelessness.