saturate vs imbue

saturate and imbue both are verbs.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
saturate	No	No	Yes	No
imbue	No	No	Yes	No

As verbs, imbue is a hyponym of saturate; that is, imbue is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than saturate:

Other hyponyms of saturate include medicate, alcoholise, alcoholize, soak, ammonify, thoriate, stuff, charge, drench, imbrue.

saturate (verb)	imbue (verb)
cause (a chemical compound, vapour, solution, magnetic material) to unite with the greatest possible amount of another substance	suffuse with color
infuse or fill completely	fill, soak, or imbue totally
	spread or diffuse through