injecting

Verb

inject (third-person singular simple present injects, present participle injecting, simple past and past participle injected)

1. (transitive) To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.
   • The nurse injected a painkilling drug into the veins of my forearm.
2. (transitive) To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
   • Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.
3. (transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
   • Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.
4. (intransitive) To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
   • It's been a week since I stopped injecting, and I'm still in withdrawal.
5. (transitive) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
   • Yes, you'll have to use CreateRemoteThread to "inject code" if you want information like the current directory of a process (at least on NT 3.5x).1996 November 11, David Taillé <taille@calva.net>, “Getting Process information”, in comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 (Usenet), message-ID <MPG.cf15f0a5cfb22c3989699@news.calvacom.fr>
6. (obsolete, transitive) To cast or throw; used with on.
   • And mound inject on mound.1725, Homer, “Book XI”, in [Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume III, London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC

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