Possible Clues:

• To suffuse or permeate
• Steep? Starts to imagine mountaineer being up Everest
• Soak thoroughly
• Inject (with)
• Instil; inspire
• It's steep that Cockney chap getting depressed with loss of pound
• This compiler's occasionally obtuser fill
• Shower, say
• Permeate, inspire the mind
• Deeply tinge limbs with hues, dropping restraints