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Definition: INFUSED |
INFUSEDImperative & past participle1. Of Infuse |
Date "INFUSED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Extrinsicality | Implanted, ingrafted; inculcated, infused. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: INFUSED |
| English words defined with "INFUSED": Infusibility, Infusible, Infusionism. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "INFUSED": Bone Marrow Purging ♦ Harmonia's Robe ♦ implantable pump, implanted pump, infusion shot firing ♦ Mineral Waters ♦ peripheral blood lymphocyte therapy, port-a-cath, PURL ♦ sour bean. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "INFUSED": Infuse. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Adrienne Clarkson Presents: Infused with Light: A Journey with Mary Pratt (1997) | |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Thanks to the men of the Paris faubourgs, the Revolution infused into armies, conquers Europe |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Oils infused with garlic or herbs should be refrigerated. (references) | |
In one, HDL was infused into rabbits being fed atherogenic diets, and in the other, transgenic mice overexpressing human apoAI were fed atherogenic diets. (references) | ||
Dose ranges of 200-800 mg/kg/mo have been shown to be effective, but dose or frequency of infusions must be tailored to the individual patient, because half life of infused IVIG varies widely. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Monroe | 1817-1825 | By extending our Government on the principles of our Constitution over the vast territory within our limits, on the Lakes and the Mississippi and its numerous streams, new life and vigor are infused into every part of our system. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Another is that even the support of the strongest nations cannot guarantee a peace unless it is infused with the quality of justice for all nations. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | An idea infused with the conviction that America's long heroic journey must go forever upward. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "INFUSED" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 61.63% of the time. "INFUSED" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 61.63% | 53 | 46,657 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 26.74% | 23 | 72,767 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 11.63% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Total | 100.00% | 86 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "INFUSED": flower-infused, grease-infused. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
infused oil | 20 | infused oil orange | 5 |
infused vodka | 16 | citrus infused oil | 5 |
infused | 10 | infused oil truffles white | 5 |
infused recipe vodka | 9 | candy infused martini | 4 |
herb infused oil | 8 | candy infused martinis | 3 |
infused oil recipe | 7 | infused vinegar | 3 |
infused olive oil | 7 | infused olive oil recipe | 2 |
basil infused oil | 6 | garlic infused oil olive | 2 |
infused lemon oil | 5 | infused jolly rancher vodka | 2 |
black infused oil truffles | 5 | fruit infused vodka | 2 |
infused oil tangerine | 5 | infused making oil | 2 |
infused oil truffles | 5 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "INFUSED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | попарен (dashed, downcast, hipped, scalded). (various references) | |
Chinese | 灌输 (imbue, imbued, Imbuing, indoctrinate, Indoctrinated, Indoctrinating, infuse, Infusing). (various references) | |
French | cube infusé (water volume infused). (various references) | |
German | eingegossen, aufgegossen. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | infuseday.(various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "INFUSED": reinfused. (additional references) | |
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"INFUSED" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enfuse, infeed, infured, Infutec, inuse, inused. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "INFUSED" (pronounced i'nfyuw"zd) |
| 6 | -n f y uw" z d | confused. |
| 5 | -f y uw" z d | defused, diffused, fused, refused, suffused, transfused. |
| 4 | -y uw" z d | abused, accused, amused, bemused, disabused, excused, misused, mused, overused, recused, underused, unused, used. |
| 3 | -uw" z d | bruised, cruised, enthused, oozed, perused, reused. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-f-i-n-s-u" | |
-1 letter: fiends, indues, infuse, nudies, undies. | |
-2 letters: defis, dines, dunes, fends, feuds, fiend, finds, fined, fines, fundi, funds, fused, indue, neifs, nides, nidus, nudes, nudie, snide, unfed. | |
-3 letters: defi, deni, dens, dies, dine, dins, dues, dune, duns, ends, feds, fend, fens, feud, feus, fids, find, fine, fins, fuds, fund, funs, fuse, ides, neif, nide. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-f-i-n-s-u" | |
+1 letter: defusing, unfished, unsifted. | |
+2 letters: finitudes, fluidness, foundries, furnished, reinfused, unshifted. | |
+3 letters: defocusing, fundraiser, fungicides, furanoside, interfused, unfinished, windsurfed. | |
+4 letters: definitudes, defocussing, desulfuring, diffuseness, dutifulness, fecundities, fluidnesses, fricandeaus, fundraisers, furanosides, infinitudes, insufflated, mindfulness, refurnished, sulfonamide, unfurnished, unjustified, unsatisfied, unspecified. | |
+5 letters: disfurnished, disfurnishes, faultfinders, fecundations, fourdriniers, groundfishes, interdiffuse, pridefulness, profundities, safeguarding, subinfeudate, sulfadiazine, sulfonamides, transfigured, unclassified, undersheriff, unstratified. | |
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