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Infuse   /ɪnfjˈuz/   Listen
Infuse

verb
(past & past part. infused; pres. part. infusing)
1.
Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions.  Synonyms: inculcate, instill.
2.
Fill, as with a certain quality.  Synonyms: impregnate, instill, tincture.
3.
Undergo the process of infusion.
4.
Let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse.  Synonym: steep.  "Steep the fruit in alcohol"
5.
Introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes.






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"Infuse" Quotes from Famous Books



... to make beings who should know it, and who should compose a body of thinking members. For our members do not feel the happiness of their union, of their wonderful intelligence, of the care which has been taken to infuse into them minds, and to make them grow and endure. How happy they would be if they saw and felt it! But for this they would need to have intelligence to know it, and good-will to consent to that of the universal soul. But if, having received ...
— Pascal's Pensees • Blaise Pascal

... times when one must talk." He met her level glance of reproach with one of frank apology. "If I see a man whose face I like, I speak to him. Surely Nature does not flash that subtle sense of magnetism for nothing. If I am to live fully, then must I infuse into my insular existence the electric spark of sympathetic friendship. Why impoverish my existence by a lost opportunity? If I had not alighted that day upon the lake and waited for you to come through the trees—" he fell suddenly quiet, ...
— Diane of the Green Van • Leona Dalrymple

... wheel. You would have said he was trying to infuse some of his own overflowing strength into the mechanism that, whirling, zooning with power, needed no more. The gleam in his eyes, there in the dark pilot-house, seemed almost that of a fanatic. His jaw hardened, ...
— The Flying Legion • George Allan England

... web of hair, burst loose your bonds and bid me move! Oh, time, cease not your calculations, but speed me on to deliverance! Oh, silence, vast, immense, infuse into your soul some sound other than the heavy throbbing of this fast disintegrating heart! Oh, pitiless stone arches, let fall your crushing weight upon ...
— Violets and Other Tales • Alice Ruth Moore

... wanted,—physical, mental, spiritual. This gives the rounded life, and he or she who fails in any one comes short of the perfect whole. The physical has its uses just the same and is just as important as the others. The great secret of the highly successful life is, however, to infuse the mental and the physical with the spiritual; in other words, to spiritualize all, and so raise all to the highest ...
— What All The World's A-Seeking • Ralph Waldo Trine


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