Infuse

Definition: Infuse

Infuse

Verb

1. Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions.

2. Fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide".

3. Sit or let sit in boiling water to extract the flavor; "the tea is brewing".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "infuse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Infuse \In*fuse"\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Infused; Infusing.]. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Health

Synonyms: Infuse

Courage

Give courage, infuse courage, inspire courage; reassure, encourage, embolden, inspirit, cheer, nerve, put upon one's mettle, rally, raise a rallying cry; pat on the back, make a man of., keep in countenance.

Excitation

Stimulate; exsuscitate; inspirit; spirit up, stir up, work up, pique; infuse life into, give new life to; bring new blood, introduce new blood; quicken; sharpen, whet; work upon; (incite); hurry on, give a fillip, put on one's mettle.

Improvement

Relieve, refresh, infuse new blood into, recruit.

Insertion

Verb: insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue.

Mixture

Instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.

Teaching

Inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate.

Transference

Shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon.

Crosswords: Infuse

Books

• Making Candles & Potpourri: Illuminate and Infuse Your Home (reference)

  (more book examples)

Pharmacist is preparing cd4, which is a new treatment for AIDS and ARC (AIDS-related complex). cd4 is administered intravenously by a syringe pump, in the foreground, which is programmed to infuse cd4 over a 24-hour period. cd4 acts like a decoy and blocks the cd4 receptors on the t4 cell, thus preventing the HIV virus from infecting the cell. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

La Science infuse, ou les Docteurs du jour. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Economic History

Chad

The International Finance Corporation is preparing to infuse additional funds through existing banks if demand develops. (references)

India

The RBI has barred foreign banks from including their external commercial lending to Indian companies as part of their tier 1 capital, forcing small foreign banks to infuse fresh capital to maintain the capital adequacy ratio or pare their asset base. (references)

India

Investment in the following areas is expected to be accorded priority in considering investment applications: items listed in the automatic approval list, where conditions for automatic approval are not met; infrastructure; items with export potential; projects with large employment potential, particularly in rural areas; items which have a direct or backward linkage with the agricultural sector; socially relevant projects such as hospitals and life saving drugs; and projects which induct new technology or infuse capital. (references)

Expressions using "infuse": infuse a fresh spirit into ♦ infuse into ♦ infuse new blood in an undertaking ♦ infuse new blood into ♦ infuse smb. with hope ♦ infuse tea. Additional references.

Albanian

injektoj (inject, transfuse), ngjall (arouse, awake, bestir, breed, bring to life, conjure, create, exalt, excite, feed up, heal, incur, inspire, interest, kindle, quicken, raise, revive, sow, wake, whet), mbush me (fill with, litter, load, overrun). (various references)

Arabic 

‏نفخ في (infusion, inspire, inspire with, insufflate), ‏نقع (assuage, drench, impregnate, impregnation, mashing, saturate, saturation, slake, soak, souse, steep, temper, wash, water), ‏غرس في (infusion), ‏تسرب (get home, infiltrate, infiltration, leak, leakage, ooze, seep, seepage), ‏سكب (casting, decant, empty, infusion, melt down, mould, pour, pouring out, render, shed, slop, slosh), ‏شرب (bib, drain, drink, imbibe, impregnate, ingrain, inoculate, quaff, stain, steep). (various references)

Bulgarian 

кисна (ret, soak), вливам (disgorge, transfuse), наливам (fill, ply, pour, pour out, pump in), преливам (brim over, burst, fade, flow, melt, merge, overbrim, overfill, overflow, overrun, run over, simmer over, slop over, transfuse, well over), попарвам (blight, damp, frost, kill, nip, perish, scald, steam, touch, wither), изпълвам (fill, inflate, inform, inhabit, occupy). (various references)

Chinese 

灌输 (imbue, imbued, Imbuing, indoctrinate, Indoctrinated, Indoctrinating, Infused, Infusing). (various references)

Czech

inspirovat (prepossess), spařit (scald), nalít (fill). (various references)

Danish

infundere, indgive. (various references)

Dutch

zetten (link, mount, put, typeset), laten trekken, aftrekken (rebate, retreat, subtract). (various references)

Esperanto

infuzi. (various references)

Farsi 

القاء کردن (Excite, Implant, Induct, Inspire), ریختن (Disgorge, Dust, Found, Infusion, Lave, Pour, Shed, Strew), دم کردن (Brew, Stew), برانگیختن (Abet, Act, Actuate, Arouse, Evince, Exacerbate, Exasperate, Excite, Heat, Impulse, Instigate, Irritate, Nettle, Prod, Prompt, Provoke, Roust, Sick, Whet). (various references)

Finnish

rohkaista jonkun mieltä (infuse courage, inspire with courage). (various references)

French

infuser (inject). (various references)

Frisian

ôftrekke (to subtract). (various references)

German

infundieren, aufgießen (brew, to infuse). (various references)

Greek 

ενσταλάζω (instil). (various references)

Hebrew 

לערות דם (transfuse), להשרות ב-. (various references)

Hungarian

betölt (to pour out), beönt (to pour in, to pour out). (various references)

Indonesian

menginfus, memasukkan (include, incorporate, indent, slip). (various references)

Italian

infondere (implant, inspire, instil, instill). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

煎じる (to boil, to decoct, to infuse), 注ぎ込む (to imbue, to implant, to impregnate, to infuse, to inject, to instill, to invest in, to pour into, to put into). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そそぎこむ (to imbue, to implant, to impregnate, to infuse, to inject, to instill, to invest in, to pour into, to put into), つぎこむ (to imbue, to implant, to impregnate, to infuse, to inject, to instill, to invest in, to pour into, to put into), せんじる (to boil, to decoct, to infuse). (various references)

Manx

cur er tayrn. (various references)

Norwegian

sette mot i. (various references)

Pig Latin

infuseay.(various references)

Portuguese

infundir (inspire, mash, mask). (various references)

Romanian

insufla (breathe into, imbue, inform, inject, inspire with, instil, insufflate, prompt), inspira (inspire), infuza, vãrsa (circumfuse, disgorge, effuse, eject, outpour, pour forth, puke, regorge, shed, spew, spill, spout, tipple, vomit), turna (cast, circumfuse, Mold, mould, pour, put in, slop). (various references)

Russian 

вселять (inspire), вливать;внушать, вливать, заваривать (brew). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uliti (inculcate, instill, pour in). (various references)

Spanish

infundir (ingrain, inject). (various references)

Swedish

ingjuta (inject, instil, instill). (various references)

Turkish

ilham vermek (infuse into, inspire, reveal, transfuse), içine dökmek (pour in, pour into), kafasına sokmak (beat smth. into smb.'s head, embed, imbue, inculcate, infix, inseminate, put smb. in mind of, whip), doldurmak (charge, choke up, clog, complete, congest, cover in, crowd, fill, glut, infest, line, load, point up, ram, replenish, store, stuff, throng, top up, write out), demlemek (brew, draw, soak, steep). (various references)

Ukrainian

вливати (blend), настоювати (decoct, steep), навівати (inoculate, suggest). (various references)

afflatus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "infuse": infused, infuser, infusers, infuses. (additional references)

Words ending with "infuse": reinfuse. (additional references)

Words containing "infuse": reinfused, reinfuses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Infuse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Einfluss, enfuse, ifsa, indues, induse, induser, infore, infos, Infutec, inuse, Nfsu, Nieuwe. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: fines, neifs.

-2 letters: fens, feus, fine, fins, funs, fuse, neif, seif, sine.

-3 letters: efs, ens, fen, feu, fie, fin, fun, ifs, ins, nus, sei, sen, sin, sue, sun, uns, use.

-4 letters: ef, en, es, if, in, is, ne, nu, si, un, us.

+1 letter: funnies, infused, infuser, infuses, unfixes, unifies.

+2 letters: bluefins, defusing, effusing, effusion, finespun, flunkies, fuchsine, fulmines, funicles, funkiest, funniest, gunfires, influxes, infusers, infusive, refusing, refusnik, reinfuse, snuffier, unfished, unifaces, unifiers, unsifted.

+3 letters: effusions, epifaunas, felonious, figulines, figurines, finitudes, fluencies, fluidness, fluorines, foundries, frauleins, fuchsines, fungibles, funkiness, funniness, furnished, furnisher, furnishes, furriners, fussiness, fustiness, fuzziness, huffiness, influents, infusible, interfuse, nefarious, nullifies, perfusing, perfusion, puffiness, refurnish, refusenik, refusniks, reinfused, reinfuses, reunifies, snuffiest, snufflier, suffering, sunfishes, superfine, unbeliefs, unfairest, unfitness, unselfish, unshifted.