infusing

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...
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]...

   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...

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