infuse

Verb

infuse (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.
   • Like every day this hellish summer, someone will come to infuse me with four hours with amphotericin, a weed-killer somewhat effective against cryptococcal meningitis.1989 April 15, Richard F. Tremblay, “Two Days”, in Gay Community News, page 8
2. (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
   • 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).
   • 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...
   • infusing him with self and vain conceit1595 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...
4. (transitive) To instill as a quality.
   • 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]...
   • 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

   Synonyms:

   breathe

5. (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
   • Let it infuse for five minutes.
6. (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
   • 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 hours1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted...
7. (obsolete, transitive) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
   • That strong Circean liquor cease t’infuse.1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning