Why this word is great
IMBRUE — [Verb] To stain, especially with blood or a similar substance. From Middle English embrewen, from Old French embrever, a metathetic variant of embevrer ("to imbibe, steep, penetrate, soak"), from Vulgar Latin imbiberāre, related to Latin imbibere ("to drink in, soak"). Unlike "imbue" (which suffuses with intangible qualities) or "saturate" (which merely fills to capacity), "imbrue" carries the weight of violence, of something irrevocably altered. It is the butcher’s apron darkening as he works, the rust-brown bloom of old blood on a battlefield relic, or the way guilt seeps into memory—not just a mark, but a taint, a saturation that cannot be scrubbed away.