infuse

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill. transitive
    — 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.
  2. To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal). transitive
    — 1806-1831, John Redman Coxe, The American Dispensatory One scruple of the dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
  3. To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with). transitive
    — Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
  4. To instill as a quality. transitive
    — That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men.
  5. To undergo infusion. intransitive
    — Let it infuse for five minutes.
  6. To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate. transitive
    — 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. To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed. obsolete,transitive
    — That strong Circean liquor cease t’infuse.

词形变化

infuses present,singular,third-person infusing participle,present infused participle,past infused past

词源

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