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Verb: infuse  in'fyooz
  1. Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
    - inculcate, instill
     
  2. Fill, as with a certain quality
    "The heavy traffic infuses the air with carbon monoxide";
    - impregnate, instill, tincture
     
  3. Undergo the process of infusion
    "the mint tea is infusing"
     
  4. Let sit in a liquid to extract a flavour or to cleanse
    "infuse the blossoms in oil";
    - steep
     
  5. (medicine) introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes
    "Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals"

Derived forms: infused, infuses, infusing

Type of: drill, fill, fill up, imbue, inject, shoot, soak

Encyclopedia: Infuse