verb
- Teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions.
- usage: "inculcate values into the young generation"
- Fill, as with a certain quality.
- usage: "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"
- synonyms: impregnate, instill, tincture
- Undergo the process of infusion.
- usage: "the mint tea is infusing"
- Let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse.
- usage: "steep the blossoms in oil"; "steep the fruit in alcohol"
- synonyms: steep
- Introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes.
- usage: "Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals"
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