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injects

injects is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inject.

Meaning of inject

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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Questions about injects

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Injects is the third-person singular simple present indicative of inject.

Words near injects in the dictionary

  1. injector pen
  2. injectoral
  3. injectors
  4. injectosome
  5. injectosomes
  6. injects
  7. injelititis
  8. injellied
  9. Injen
  10. Injens
  11. injera

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