transfuse

(trăns-fyūz')
tr.v., -fused, -fus·ing, -fus·es.

1. To pour (something) out of one vessel into another.
2. To cause to be instilled or imparted: transfused a love of learning to her children.
3. To diffuse through; permeate: a glade that was transfused with sunlight.
4. Medicine. To administer a transfusion of or to.

[Middle English transfusen, to transmit, from Latin trānsfundere, trānsfūs-, to transfuse : trāns-, trans- + fundere, to pour.]

transfuser trans·fus'er n.
transfusible trans·fus'i·ble or trans·fus'a·ble adj.
transfusive trans·fu'sive (-fyū'sĭv, -zĭv) adj.

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verb

To cause to be filled, as with a particular mood or tone: charge, freight, imbue, impregnate, permeate, pervade, saturate, suffuse. See full/empty/capacity.

IN BRIEF: Pour out of one vessel into another.

Victory transfused courage into the team.

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to transfer blood from one animal into the circulation of another animal, or to inject liquid into the circulation of an animal to maintain the circulating fluid volume.
—transfusion n.

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