infuse

verb

1. (transitive)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.”

2. (transitive)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.”

3. (transitive)To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).

   “Infuse his breast with magnanimity.”

   “infusing him with self and vain conceit”

   “The uproar of the sea, the yell of the Indians, the rapidity with which the boat at intervals was driven, threatening at every moment to be engulphed, might have infused terror into the most undaunted;[…]”

4. (transitive)To instill as a quality.

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

   “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.

   “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. (obsolete, transitive)To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

   “That strong Circean liquor cease t’infuse.”