Infuse

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  • transitive verb. To put into or introduce as if by pouring.
  • transitive verb. To fill or cause to be filled with something.
  • transitive verb. To steep or soak without boiling in order to extract soluble elements or active principles.
  • transitive verb. To flavor or scent (a liquid) by steeping ingredients in it.
  • transitive verb. To introduce (a solution) into the body through a vein for therapeutic purposes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. An infusion.
  • To pour in or into, as a liquid; introduce and pervade with, as an ingredient: as, to infuse a flavor into sauce.
  • To introduce as by pouring; cause to penetrate; insinuate; instil: with into: chiefly in figurative uses.
  • To steep; extract the principles or qualities of, as a vegetable substance, by pouring a liquid upon it; make an infusion of.
  • To affect or modify by infusion; mingle; hence, to imbue; tinge: followed by with.
  • To pour, or pour out; shed; diffuse.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Infusion.
  • transitive verb. To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
  • transitive verb. To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce.
  • transitive verb. To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; -- followed by with.
  • transitive verb. To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak.
  • transitive verb. To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
  • verb. To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
  • verb. To instill as a quality.
  • verb. To undergo infusion.
  • verb. To tincture.
  • verb. To saturate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes
  • verb. teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
  • verb. let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse
  • verb. fill, as with a certain quality
  • verb. undergo the process of infusion
  • Word Usage
    "What is especially bad is that one does not need to "fix" (as in infuse to every member) the same bad mutation in every individual for bad mutations to degrade an entire population."
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