infuse

verb
🔊/ɪnˈfjuːz/
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they infuse
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he / she / it infuses
🔊/ɪnˈfjuːzɪz/
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past simple infused
🔊/ɪnˈfjuːzd/
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past participle infused
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-ing form infusing
🔊/ɪnˈfjuːzɪŋ/
🔊/ɪnˈfjuːzɪŋ/
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  1. [transitive] infuse A into B | infuse B with A (formal) to make somebody/something have a particular quality使具有,注入(某特性)
    • Her novels are infused with sadness.她的小说充满哀伤。🔊🔊
  2. [transitive] infuse something (formal) to have an effect on all parts of something全面影响
    • Politics infuses all aspects of our lives.政治影响着我们生活的各个方面。🔊🔊
  3. [transitive, intransitive] infuse (something) if you infuse herbs, etc. or they infuse, you put them in hot water until the taste has passed into the water 泡制(草药等);泡;沏
  4. [transitive] infuse something (into something) (medical医学) to slowly put a drug or other substance into a person’s vein输注(药物等)Topics Social issuesc2
  5. Word Originlate Middle English: from Latin infus- ‘poured in’, from the verb infundere, from in- ‘into’ + fundere ‘pour’.