infuse

See also: infusé

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈfjuz/

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• Rhymes: -uːz

Verb

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).
   • Template:RQ:Coxe The American Dispensary

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

3. (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
   • c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iv]:

     Infuse his breast with magnanimity.

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     infusing him with self and vain conceit

4. (transitive) To instill as a quality.
   • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

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

   • Template:RQ:Swift An Essay on Modern Education

     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.
   • 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     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

7. (transitive, obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
   • Template:RQ:Denham The Progress of Learning

     That strong Circean liquor cease t’infuse.

Related terms

• infusion
• suffuse

Translations

to insert or fill

• Bulgarian: наливам (bg) (nalivam)
• Esperanto: infuzi
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to steep in a liquid

• Armenian: թրմել (hy) (tʻrmel)
• Bulgarian: запарвам (zaparvam)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 泡 (zh) (pào), 沏 (zh) (qiē)

• French: infuser (fr)
• German: ziehen lassen
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: trekke (no)

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• Polish: zaparzać (pl) impf, zaparzyć (pl) pf
• Romanian: infuza (ro)
• Russian: наста́ивать (ru) impf (nastáivatʹ), настоя́ть (ru) impf (nastojátʹ), зава́ривать (ru) impf (zavárivatʹ), завари́ть (ru) pf (zavarítʹ) (e.g. tea)
• Slovene: popariti
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with)

• Bulgarian: вдъхвам (bg) (vdǎhvam)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• fuse

References

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

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French

Adjective

infuse

1. feminine singular of infus

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inˈfu.ze/
• Rhymes: -uze
• Hyphenation: in‧fù‧se

Etymology 1

Verb

infuse

1. third-person singular past historic of infondere

Etymology 2

Participle

infuse f pl

1. feminine plural of infuso

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Latin

Participle

(deprecated template usage) īnfūse

1. vocative masculine singular of īnfūsus