infuse

From Middle English infusen, from Latin infusus, from infundo.

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfjuz/
• Rhymes: -uːz

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.
2. (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
   • Coxe

     One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.

3. (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
   • Shakespeare

     Infuse his breast with magnanimity.

   • Shakespeare

     infusing him with self and vain conceit

4. (transitive) To instill as a quality.
   • Shakespeare

     That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.

   • Jonathan Swift

     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?

5. (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
   • Let it infuse for five minutes.
6. (transitive) To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Francis Bacon to this entry?)

7. (transitive, obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
   • Denham

     That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse.

• suffuse

• fuse

• 1902 Webster's International dictionary.
• 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.

infuse

1. feminine singular of infus

infuse

1. third-person singular past historic of infondere

infuse f

1. plural of infuso

infūse

1. vocative masculine singular of infūsus