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INFUSE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes

Example:

Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "infuse" is one way to...):

inject; shoot (give an injection to)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

infusion ((medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse

Example:

steep the fruit in alcohol

Synonyms:

infuse; steep

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "infuse" is one way to...):

imbue; soak (fill, soak, or imbue totally)

Verb group:

infuse (undergo the process of infusion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "infuse"):

marinade; marinate (soak in marinade)

decoct (steep in hot water)

infuse (undergo the process of infusion)

draw (steep; pass through a strainer)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Undergo the process of infusion

Example:

the mint tea is infusing

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "infuse" is one way to...):

infuse; steep (let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse)

Verb group:

infuse; steep (let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

infusion (the process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water))

Sense 4

Meaning:

Fill, as with a certain quality

Example:

The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide

Synonyms:

impregnate; infuse; instill; tincture

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "infuse" is one way to...):

fill; fill up; make full (make full, also in a metaphorical sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Derivation:

infusion (the act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality)

Sense 5

Meaning:

Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions

Example:

inculcate values into the young generation

Synonyms:

inculcate; infuse; instill

Classified under:

Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting

Hypernyms (to "infuse" is one way to...):

drill (teach by repetition)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "infuse"):

din (instill (into a person) by constant repetition)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Credits

 Context examples: 

The modified T lymphocytes are cloned using an ex vivo technique and infused back into the patient, where they may elicit a host immune response against tumor cells.

(PG13/LNc8 Retroviral Transduced Cloned T-Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Autologous PBMCs are isolated, expanded ex vivo, radiolabeled with indium In 111, and then infused back into the patient.

(Indium In 111-Labeled Autologous Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells, NCI Thesaurus)

Researchers have been able to coax stem cells to transform (differentiate) into many types of cells in the laboratory before infusing them into the body.

(Laser Therapy Prompts Regeneration in Teeth, NIH)

Panic attacks can be induced in susceptible people by infusing them with a normally innocuous salt called sodium lactate.

(The Mechanism of Panic Attacks, NIH, US)

Researchers from NASA and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, report that streams of meteoroids striking the Moon infuse the thin lunar atmosphere with a short-lived water vapor.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

Over 5 days, the scientists repeatedly infused the VTA of susceptible mice with a drug called lamotrigine, which is known to increase excitatory currents.

(Self-tuning neurons promote resilience to stress, depression, NIH)

A low-cost device that infuses small amounts of chlorine into water drawn from public taps can reduce child diarrhoea by 23 per cent, according to a study conducted in Bangladesh.

(Chlorine dispensers fitted to public taps cut child diarrhoea, SciDev.Net)

Arnebia Indigo Jade Pearl topical cream contains 12 ingredients including 9 herbs infused in sesame oil, with an additional three powdered ingredients and beeswax added to the infused oil to create the salve.

(Arnebia Indigo Jade Pearl Topical Cream, NCI Thesaurus)

Examples of these devices include Hickman catheters, which require clamps to make sure the valve is closed, and Groshong catheters, which have a valve that opens as fluid is withdrawn or infused and remains closed when not in use.

(Central venous access catheter, NCI Dictionary)

A population of T cells that have been sensitized to vaccine tumor antigen(s) in vivo; collected from the patient; co-stimulated with antibodies to the T-cell cell surface proteins CD3 and CD28 and expanded ex vivo; and then infused into the same patient.

(CD3/CD28 Costimulated Autologous T-Cells, NCI Thesaurus)