infuse

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To put into or introduce as if by pouring: infused new vigor into the movement.
2. v. To fill or cause to be filled with something: infused them with a love of the land.
3. v. To steep or soak without boiling in order to extract soluble elements or active principles.
4. v. To flavor or scent (a liquid) by steeping ingredients in it: "He would infuse . . . vegetable oil with the pungent taste of scallions” ( Nina Simonds).
5. v. To introduce (a solution) into the body through a vein for therapeutic purposes.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To pour in or into, as a liquid; introduce and pervade with, as an ingredient: as, to infuse a flavor into sauce.
2. To introduce as by pouring; cause to penetrate; insinuate; instil: with into: chiefly in figurative uses.
3. To steep; extract the principles or qualities of, as a vegetable substance, by pouring a liquid upon it; make an infusion of.
4. To affect or modify by infusion; mingle; hence, to imbue; tinge: followed by with.
5. To pour, or pour out; shed; diffuse.
6. n. An infusion.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
2. v. transitive To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
3. v. transitive To instill as a quality.
4. v. intransitive To undergo infusion.
5. v. intransitive To tincture.
6. v. intransitive To saturate.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
2. v. To instill, as principles or qualities; to introduce.
3. v. To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill; -- followed by with.
4. v. To steep in water or other fluid without boiling, for the propose of extracting medicinal qualities; to soak.
5. v. rare To make an infusion with, as an ingredient; to tincture; to saturate.
6. n. obsolete Infusion.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes
2. v. teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions
3. v. let sit in a liquid to extract a flavor or to cleanse
4. v. fill, as with a certain quality
5. v. undergo the process of infusion