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US
/ˌɪnˈfjuʒən/
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[ UK /ɪnfjˈuːʒən/ ]
[ UK /ɪnfjˈuːʒən/ ]
NOUN
- (medicine) the passive introduction of a substance (a fluid or drug or electrolyte) into a vein or between tissues (as by gravitational force)
- a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance (usually in water)
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the act of infusing or introducing a certain modifying element or quality
the team's continued success is attributable to a steady infusion of new talent - the process of extracting certain active properties (as a drug from a plant) by steeping or soaking (usually in water)
How To Use infusion In A Sentence
- Gwenhidwy likes to drink a lot, grain alcohol mostly, mixed in great strange mad-scientist concoctions with beef tea, grenadine, cough syrup, bitter belch-gathering infusions of blue scullcap, valerian root, motherwort and lady's-slipper, whatever's to hand really. Gravity's Rainbow
- Either switch to decaffeinated tea or coffee or herbal infusions like vervain, mint or camomile.
- Here location at the two extremities of the peninsula has involved a striking difference in ethnic infusions in the two districts, different historical careers owing to different vicinal grouping, and dissimilar geographic conditions. Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography
- Cells were grown at 27° or 18°, as indicated, in grass infusion, bacterized with Klebsiella pneumoniae the day before use, and supplemented with 0.4 g/ml ß-sitosterol.
- I looked heavenwards as if hoping for a miraculous infusion of patience and tried hard to conceal my irritation. ABSOLUTE TRUTHS
- This massive infusion of money and credit has yet to satisfy the appetites of airline executives.
- Poach salmon in an infusion of green tea and ginger.
- But, in the verity of extolment, I take him to be a soul of great article, and his infusion of such dearth and rareness as, to make true diction of him, his semblable is his mirror, and who else would trace him, his umbrage, nothing more. Hamlet
- Fresh ideas, inventive combinations and a lively ambience inform this modern Scottish restaurant famed for giving traditional dishes a vibrant international infusion.
- Many electrical based light workers also crave protein in an attempt to rebuild the muscular structure as it burns off in the light infusion.