infuse
verb/ɪnˈfjuːz/
/ɪnˈfjuːz/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they infuse | /ɪnˈfjuːz/ /ɪnˈfjuːz/ |
| he / she / it infuses | /ɪnˈfjuːzɪz/ /ɪnˈfjuːzɪz/ |
| past simple infused | /ɪnˈfjuːzd/ /ɪnˈfjuːzd/ |
| past participle infused | /ɪnˈfjuːzd/ /ɪnˈfjuːzd/ |
| -ing form infusing | /ɪnˈfjuːzɪŋ/ /ɪnˈfjuːzɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] infuse A into B | infuse B with A (formal) to make somebody/something have a particular quality
- Her novels are infused with sadness.
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- [transitive] infuse something (formal) to have an effect on all parts of something
- Politics infuses all aspects of our lives.
- [transitive, intransitive] infuse (something) if you infuse herbs, etc. or they infuse, you put them in hot water until the taste has passed into the water
- [transitive] infuse something (into something) (medical) to slowly put a drug or other substance into a person’s veinTopics Healthcarec2
Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin infus- ‘poured in’, from the verb infundere, from in- ‘into’ + fundere ‘pour’.
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