infuse

verb7

1. •
   To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.

   • Like every day this hellish summer, someone will come to infuse me with four hours with amphotericin, a weed-killer somewhat effective against cryptococcal meningitis. — 1989
2. •
   To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).

   • Infuse his breast with magnanimity. — 1591
3. •
   To instill as a quality.

   • That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men. — 1596
4. •
   To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).

   • One scruple of the dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water. — 1806
5. •
   To undergo infusion.

   • Let it infuse for five minutes.
6. •
   To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.

   • if you infuse Rubarb for an hour ; and crush it well, it will purge better, and bind the Body less after the purġing, than if it stood Twenty four hours — 1627
7. •
   (no longer used) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.

   • That strong Circean liquor cease t’infuse. — 1668