Transfuse

Definition: Transfuse

Transfuse

Verb

1. Impart gradually; "Her presence instilled faith into the children"; "transfuse love of music into the students".

2. Pour out of one vessel into another.

3. Treat by cupping.

4. Give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to.

Date "transfuse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1644. (references)

Note: Transfuse \Trans*fuse"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Transfused; present participle verb or noun Transfusing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Transfuse

Synonyms: cup (v), instill (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interpretation	Verb: interpret, explain, define, construe, translate, render; do into, turn into; transfuse the sense of.
Mixture	Instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.
Transference	Shovel, ladle, decant, draft off, transfuse, infuse, siphon.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Transfuse

English words defined with "transfuse": Transfund, Transfused, Transfusing, Transfusive. (references)

Etymologies containing "transfuse": Transfund. (references)

Play	Caption
	Bubbles; bubble; glug; glugging; bleed; bubble; charge; drain; drip; exude; filter; filtrate; impregnate; leach; ooze; pass through; penetrate; perk; permeate; pervade; saturate; strain; sweat; transfuse; transude; weep.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		It is apparent that factors other than the platelet count must also be considered in deciding when to transfuse. (references)
		It is common practice to use a preselected level of thrombocytopenia to decide when to transfuse platelets prophylactically. (references)
		It appears that some patients with chronic anemia such as those with chronic renal failure tolerate hemoglobin values of less than 7 g/dL. The decision to transfuse red cells will depend on clinical assessment aided by laboratory data such as arterial oxygenation, mixed venous oxygen tension, cardiac output, the oxygen extraction ratio and blood volume, when indicated. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Transfuse" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Transfuse" is used about 4 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 (infinitive)	100%	4	175,879

Expressions using "transfuse": transfuse one's ideas ♦ transfuse the sense of. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "transfuse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		injektoj (infuse, inject), derdh në enë tjetër, bëj transfuzion. (various references)

Arabic		‏نقل الدم (transfusion), ‏نقل دما, ‏نقل (alien, alienate, assign, bandy, carriage, carry, carry forward, communicate, convection, convey, conveyance, copy, deliver, freight, go cart, hand on, handling, pass on, pipe, portage, promotion, propagate, relocate, remove, reproduction, route, shift, take away, tote, transfer, transference, transit, transmission, transmit, transport, transportation), ‏تخلل (infiltrate, interpose, intervene, intervention, pervade, soak), ‏إخترق (break through, cleave, penetrate, perforate, permeate, pierce, sink). (various references)

Bulgarian		вливам (disgorge, infuse), прониквам в (enter, penetrate, permeate, tap), пропивам в, преливам (brim over, burst, fade, flow, infuse, melt, merge, overbrim, overfill, overflow, overrun, run over, simmer over, slop over, well over), предавам (carry, convey, deliver, denounce, get through, give, give in, give over, give up, hand in, hand over, impart, pass along, pass in, pass round, put out, render, reproduce, resign, sell down the river, sell out, send, send on, send out, submit, turn over, yield), правя преливане. (various references)

Czech		transfúze krve, přelít (recast, wash over). (various references)

Farsi		چیزی رانقل وانتقال دادن , تزریق کردن در, ازیک ظرف بظرف دیگرریختن , رسوخ یافتن در. (various references)

Finnish		siirtää verta (transfuse blood). (various references)

French		transfuser, faire une transfusion � qn. (various references)

German		erfüllen (accomplish, achieve, carry out, carry through, come up to, comply, comply with, discharge, fill, fill in, fill up, fulfil, fulfill, imbue, implement, impregnate, inform, keep, make, meet, observe, perform, pervade, preoccupy, prepossess, redeem, satisfy, serve, to comply), durchdringen (come through, get through, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, inform, penetrate, penetration, permeate, pervade, Pierce, thrill, to pervade, to soak), übertragen (apply, assign, broadcast, carry, communicate, confer, convey, copy, depute, figurative, graft, pass on, record, relay, render, switch, tape, to confer, to convey, to devolve, to overtop, to transfuse, to transmit, transcribe, transfer, transfered, transferred, transferring, transfused, translate, transmit, transport, transpose). (various references)

Greek		μεταγγίζω (decant). (various references)

Hebrew		לערות �"ם (infuse), ל�"תערות (strike roots). (various references)

Hungarian		átönt (to transfuse), átömleszt (to break bulk, to perfuse, to transfuse). (various references)

Italian		trasfondere (instil, instill). (various references)

Manx		caghlaa fuill. (various references)

Pig Latin		ansfusetray

Portuguese		trasfegar, transvazar, transmitir (bequeath, carry, communicate, conduct, convey, deliver, devolve, give, hand, hand on, impart, leave behind, pass on, relay, render, report, send, superinduce, transfer, transmit, turn over), transfundir, inocular (inoculate, seeding, vaccinate), incutir (inspire, pour, suggest). (various references)

Romanian		transvaza (decant), transmite (assign, bestow, carry, circulate, communicate, confer, consign to, convey, deliver, deliver over, demise, devolve, give, hand, pass, perpetuate, record, refer, remit, render, send, transfer, transmit), transfuza, pritoci (decant, draw). (various references)

Russian		переливать (empty). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		pretočiti, presuti (pour), preliti (flood, overflow), dati transfuziju. (various references)

Spanish		transfundir. (various references)

Turkish		nakil yapmak, kan vermek (give one's blood for), ilham vermek (infuse, infuse into, inspire, reveal), damardan vermek (shoot up), aktarmak (adapt, change, cite, hand on, post, quote, transfer, transpose), aşılamak (bud, engraft, envenom, fertilize, graft, imbue, impregnate, indoctrinate, infect, infuse into, ingraft, inoculate, inspire, instil, instill, pass on an ilness, plant, suggest, vaccinate). (various references)

Ukrainian		робити переливання, прсочувати, переливати. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "transfuse": transfused, transfuses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Transfuse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tranofuse, transue. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "transfuse" (pronounced transfyuw"z)
4	-f y uw" z	confuse, defuse, diffuse, fuse, infuse, refuse, suffuse.
3	-y uw" z	abuse, accuse, amuse, bemuse, cues, disabuse, ewes, excuse, Hews, hues, miscues, misuse, muse, overuse, pews, queues, recuse, reuse, reviews, revues, skews, spews, use, views.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-f-n-r-s-s-t-u"
	-1 letter: anestrus, saunters.
	-2 letters: farness, fastens, fasters, fatness, furanes, natures, santurs, saunter, strafes, sunfast, unrests, unseats.
	-3 letters: afters, antres, anuses, assent, assert, assure, astern, asters, estrus, fasten, faster, feasts, feuars, frusta, funest, furane, furans, fusser, nature, nurses, russet, safest, sanest, santur, sarsen, sautes, snafus, snares, stanes, stares, sterna, sterns, strafe, sunset, surest, sutras, tarsus.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-f-n-r-s-s-t-u"
	+1 letter: artfulness, transfused, transfuses.
	+2 letters: tearfulness.
	+3 letters: artfulnesses, gratefulness, transfigures, transfusable, transfusible, wrathfulness.
	+4 letters: fortunateness, fractiousness, masterfulness, tearfulnesses.
	+5 letters: figurativeness, fraudulentness, gratefulnesses, superfetations, understaffings, ungratefulness, wrathfulnesses.
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