different between imbrue vs infuse

English

Etymology

From Old French embruer, from Germanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?b?u?/

Verb

imbrue (third-person singular simple present imbrues, present participle imbruing, simple past and past participle imbrued)

1. To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
   • 1837: Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid, volume II, pages 275–276 (Richard Bentley)

     Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder,?—?found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.

Alternative forms

• embrue

Translations

Anagrams

• erbium, imbuer, murbie

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