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English to English adjective
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Urged or stimulated from within; naturally moved or impelled; imbued; animated; alive; quick; as, birds instinct with life. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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(followed by `with')deeply filled or permeated | | Example: imbued with the spirit of the Reformation
words instinct with love
it is replete with misery
source: wordnet30 noun
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inborn pattern of behavior often responsive to specific stimuli | | Example: the spawning instinct in salmon
altruistic instincts in social animals
source: wordnet30
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Natural inward impulse; unconscious, involuntary, or unreasoning prompting to any mode of action, whether bodily, or mental, without a distinct apprehension of the end or object to be accomplished. | | source: webster1913 verb
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To impress, as an animating power, or instinct. | | source: webster1913
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