Infuse

Verb

 * 1)  To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
 * 2)  To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
 * 3)  To instill as a quality.
 * 4) * Jonathan Swift 1667–1745: "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)  To undergo infusion.
 * 6)  To tincture.
 * 7)  To saturate.
 * 8) * Let it infuse for five minutes.

Thesaurus
animate, bathe, beat into, besprinkle, brainwash, breathe, brew, catechize, colliquate, color, concentrate, condition, cut, decoagulate, decoct, deliquesce, diffuse, dissolve, distill, douche, dredge, drench, drouk, dye, ease in, embue, enliven, entincture, essentialize, exhilarate, express, fire, flavor, fluidify, fluidize, flush, flux, fuse, hold in solution, imbrue, imbue, implant, impregnate, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infect, infiltrate, infix, inform, ingrain, inject, inoculate, insert, insinuate, inspire, inspirit, instill, interject, interlard, intersow, intersperse, intersprinkle, introduce, intromit, invest, lave, leach, leaven, liquefy, liquesce, liquidize, lixiviate, macerate, melt, melt down, penetrate, percolate, perfuse, permeate, pervade, pop in, press out, program, put in, refine, render, rinse, run, saturate, season, seethe, set in, slip in, soak, sodden, solubilize, solve, sop, souse, spirit, spirit up, steep, stick in, suffuse, temper, thaw, thin, throw in, tincture, tinge, transfuse, tuck in, unclot, wash, waterlog, whip in, wring, wring out

Etymology
[in]fu(n)do fu(n)dere  fusi  fusum: to pour.

Translations

 * Esperanto:


 * Polish: zaparzać

Verb
infuse



infuse


 * 1) Plural of infuso