infuse
/ɪnˈfjuz/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.82 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "1806-1831, John Redman Coxe, The American Dispensatory One scruple of the dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water."
- "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;[…]"
- "That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men."
Etymology
From Middle English infusen, from Latin infusus, from infundo.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ǵʰewd-, infusen, infusus