infuse

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The tea has to infuse in the teapot before pouring.

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Quick take

teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; "inculcate values into the young generation"

Meaning at a glance

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verb

teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; "inculcate values into the young generation"

verb

fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"

verb

undergo the process of infusion; "the mint tea is infusing"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for infuse.

verb

teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; "inculcate values into the young generation"

verb

fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"

verb

undergo the process of infusion; "the mint tea is infusing"

verb

let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; "steep the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol"

verb

introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes; "Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals"

Example sentences

The tea has to infuse in the teapot before pouring.

It sounds like if you want quantum effects you could just, you know, not infuse the phosphorous.

The former infuse the right elements into Yahoo!

Something that is bothering me. Juries are meant to infuse some common reasoning into the law.

You \nneed to infuse the drug, so it's a hard core drug, but \nin terms of preventing someone from committing suicide \nthe drug shows promise.

Sure you can put out a lot of job reqs, but this seems like the way Mayer has chosen to try to infuse Yahoo with talent & energy.

It sounds like this is a very special property of phosphorous infused nanometer wide wires.

It turns out that growing up in America does infuse you with certain values, and they're not as universal as you think.

Well, they picked one winner - Leyland - and force-merged them with all the losers, in the hope that Leyland's magic would somehow infuse them.

I have to imagine that the latter is mostly just to infuse Yahoo with young, energetic people who are willing & able to work long hours if given a proper vision.

Cranberries absorb the oils and infuse vodka, so not only this reduces the hangover effects, it also makes the vodka significantly more pleasant to drink.

A cool idea could be to randomly infuse the front page with "new" links to make sure that they get read and voted on, and that everyone is curating the top links and not just readers of /newest.

Technology from space programs infuse industry across the board, and require skilled labor from every level: from rocket scientist engineers to the guy painstakingly polishing the special steel alloys in a clean room.

Looking to Microsoft and Spielberg's recent collaborations I think is telling of where these trends will head with narrative filmmaking supplementing and expanding upon franchises, and video games working more closely with Hollywood to infuse their games with the level of storytelling audiences have grown to expect from their entertainment.