different between drench vs infuse

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English drenchen, from Old English dren?an, from Proto-Germanic *drankijan? (compare Dutch drenken ‘to get a drink’, German tränken ‘to water, give a drink’), causative of *drinkan? (“to drink”). More at drink.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??nt?/
• Rhymes: -?nt?

Noun

drench (plural drenches)

1. A draught administered to an animal.
2. (obsolete) A drink; a draught; specifically, a potion of medicine poured or forced down the throat; also, a potion that causes purging.

   • A drench of wine has with success been us'd,
     And through a horn the gen'rous juice infus'd,
     Which, timely taken, op'd his closing jaws,
     But, if too late, the patient's death did cause.

   • 1907, Mark Twain, Christian Science and the Book of Mrs. Eddy

     I took up the 'Christian Scientist' book and read half of it, then took a dipperful of drench and read the other half.

Translations

Verb

drench (third-person singular simple present drenches, present participle drenching, simple past and past participle drenched)

1. To soak, to make very wet.

   • Now dam the ditches and the floods restrain; / Their moisture has already drenched the plain.

2. To cause to drink; especially, to dose (e.g. a horse) with medicine by force.

Related terms

• drenched (adjective)
• drenching (noun)

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English dreng, from Old English dreng (“warrior, soldier”), from Proto-Germanic *drangijaz, cognate to Old Norse drengr.

Noun

drench (plural drenches)

1. (obsolete, Britain) A military vassal, mentioned in the Domesday Book.

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English

Etymology

From Middle English infusen, from Latin infusus, from infundo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?fjuz/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

infuse (third-person singular simple present infuses, present participle infusing, simple past and past participle infused)

1. (transitive) To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
2. (transitive) To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
   • 1806-1831, John Redman Coxe, The American Dispensatory

     One scruple of the dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.

3. (transitive) To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
4. (transitive) To instill as a quality.
   • c. 1720, Jonathan Swift, An Essay on Modern Education

     Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?

5. (intransitive) To undergo infusion.
6. (transitive) 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 pur?ing , than if it stood Twenty four hours

7. (transitive, obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
   • 1668, John Denham, The Progress of Learning

     That strong Circean liquor cease t'infuse.

Related terms

• infusion
• suffuse

Translations

See also

• fuse

References

• 1902 Webster's International dictionary.
• 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.

French

Adjective

infuse

1. feminine singular of infus

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uze

Verb

infuse

1. third-person singular past historic of infondere

infuse

1. feminine plural of infuso

Latin

Participle

?nf?se

1. vocative masculine singular of ?nf?sus