INFUSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does infuse mean? 

• INFUSE (verb)
  The verb INFUSE has 5 senses:

1. teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions

2. fill, as with a certain quality

3. undergo the process of infusion

4. let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse

5. introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes

  Familiarity information: INFUSE used as a verb is common.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INFUSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they infuse    ... he / she / it infuses   
Past simple: infused   
Past participle: infused   
-ing form: infusing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Synonyms:

inculcate; infuse; instill

Context example:

inculcate values into the young generation

Hypernyms (to "infuse" is one way to...):

drill (teach by repetition)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "infuse"):

din (instill (into a person) by constant repetition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 2

Meaning:

Fill, as with a certain quality

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

impregnate; infuse; instill; tincture

Context example:

The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide

Hypernyms (to "infuse" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

infusion (the act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Undergo the process of infusion

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

the mint tea is infusing

Hypernyms (to "infuse" is one way to...):

infuse; steep (let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse)

Verb group:

infuse; steep (let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

infusion (the process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

infuse; steep

Context example:

steep the fruit in alcohol

Hypernyms (to "infuse" is one way to...):

imbue; soak (fill, soak, or imbue totally)

Verb group:

infuse (undergo the process of infusion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "infuse"):

marinade; marinate (soak in marinade)

decoct (steep in hot water)

infuse (undergo the process of infusion)

draw (steep; pass through a strainer)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 5

Meaning:

Introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Context example:

Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals

Hypernyms (to "infuse" is one way to...):

inject; shoot (give an injection to)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

infusion ((medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force))

 Context examples 

If you value her conduct or happiness, infuse as much of your own spirit into her as you can.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

A sterile liquid preparation infused into a vein.

(IV Fluid, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers say the process involves infusing corn with a certain type of bacteria in order to produce methionine, an amino acid generally found in meat.

(US Researchers Genetically Modify Corn to Boost Nutritional Value, VOA News)

The isolated TILs were grown in the laboratory to large numbers and then infused into the patient intravenously.

(Cellular immunotherapy targets a common human cancer mutation, NIH)

All this I was told; for, while the operation was performing, I lay in a profound sleep, by the force of that soporiferous medicine infused into my liquor.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Specific lymphocytes from a sibling donor are infused into the patient to try and reverse these conditions.

(Peripheral blood lymphocyte therapy, NCI Dictionary)

With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Once the barrier is opened, anticancer drugs may be infused into an artery that goes to the brain, in order to treat brain tumors.

(BBBD, NCI Dictionary)

An oil obtained by infusing hypericum flowers into a carrier oil.

(Hypericum Oil, NCI Thesaurus)

Autologous PMNLs are isolated, expanded ex vivo, radiolabeled with indium In 111, and then infused back into the patient.

(Indium In 111-Labeled Autologous Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes, NCI Thesaurus)