infuse means to cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
infuse is pronounced /ɪnˈfjuz/.
Etymology
From Middle English infusen, from Latin infusus, from infundo.
verb
- 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.”
- To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).“1806-1831, John Redman Coxe, The American Dispensatory
One scruple of the dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.”
- To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).“Infuse his breast with magnanimity.”
- To instill as a quality.“That souls of animals infuse themselves
Into the trunks of men.”
- To undergo infusion.“Let it infuse for five minutes.”
- 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 hours”
- To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.“That strong Circean liquor cease t’infuse.”