The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infuse \In*fuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Infused; p. pr. & vb. n. Infusing.] [L. infusus, p. p. of infundere to pour in or into; pref. in- in + fundere to pour: cf. F. infuser. See Found to cast.]
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To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse.
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To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce.
That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men.
--Shak.Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son which himself never possessed?
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To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; -- followed by with.
Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
--Shak.Infusing him with self and vain conceit.
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To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak.
One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
--Coxe. To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate. [R.]
--Bacon.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of infuse English)
Usage examples of "infusing".
Then, he worked on infusing the cartridge in the rifle's firing chamber with the lifeforce darkness, trying to sense from where he was drawing that darkness.
Frisa moans, and tries to twist, but Rylla holds her fast as Dorrin, guided by his senses, lines up the ends of the bones, infusing the girl with order and reassurance as he does.
His fingers brush the herbs, infusing a touch more order into the weaker ones.
Wishing will not help, and he concentrates, first on the child, and the cord that sustains him, infusing more strength, more order there, and on somehow loosening, making the birth canal that fraction wider.
He breathed deeply, infusing himself with her perfume, immersing himself in the fragrance of passion as though it were a healing thrall.
He felt her essence rising from her in waves like heat off a city street in summer, only this was somehow sweet, infusing him with an ache in his heart, the kind of yearning one feels at sixteen for a sweet-fleshed girl who flashes you a sunny smile in the midst of a crowd.
Because, at the end, instead of the tiny emptiness that comes in the aftermath there were the shadows - hers and his - living, pulsing, infusing the cubicle with a darkness as tea will stain boiling water with its essence.
The luminous green crescents appeared in her eyes and he felt that peculiar heat infusing his hand, arm and body.
Now she seemed to give life to the stone itself, infusing it, as if she were a form of mesomorph, changing shape as easily as humans changed their clothes.
The aim of these is to enflesh, as it were, the geist infusing my works.
And she was down here, laughing like a giddy girl amid the murmurous sounds of water dripping, falling, sliding, water infusing and creating Joy's Castle even as she stood there.
Golden, slanting light spilled over the land, infusing it with the first rush of true summer heat.
Grinning, he picked them up and told himself he hadn't seen the inviting disarray of the bed or smelled the fist-size candle that flickered silently on a small table nearby, infusing the air with spice and mystery.