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Verb infuse has 5 senses
- inculcate, instill, infuse - teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; "inculcate values into the young generation"
--1 is one way to drill
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- impregnate, infuse, instill, tincture - fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"
--2 is one way to fill, fill up, make full
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
- infuse - undergo the process of infusion; "the mint tea is infusing"
--3 is one way to steep, infuse
Sample sentence:
Something ----s
- steep, infuse - let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse; "steep the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol"
--4 is one way to soak, imbue
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- infuse - introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes; "Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals"
--5 is one way to inject, shoot
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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