Definition of "infuse"

infuse

/ɪnˈfjuz/

verb
third-person singular simple present infuses, present participle infusing, simple past and past participle infused
1. (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
2. (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
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  One scruple of the dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
  1806-1831, John Redman Coxe, The American Dispensatory
3. (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
  Quotations
  Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
  c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iv]
  infusing him with self and vain conceit
  1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]
  The uproar of the sea, the yell of the Indians, the rapidity with which the boat at intervals was driven, threatening at every moment to be engulphed, might have infused terror into the most undaunted; […]
  1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XV, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 219
4. (transitive) To instill as a quality.
  Quotations
  That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men.
  c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]
  Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?
  c. 1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on Modern Education
5. (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
6. (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
  Quotations
  if you infuse Rubarb for an hour ; and crush it well, it will purge better, and bind the Body less after the purġing, than if it stood Twenty four hours
  1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]
7. (transitive, obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
  Quotations
  That strong Circean liquor cease t’infuse.
  1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning

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