different between infuse vs ingrain

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

English

Alternative forms

• engrain

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English engreynen, from the French phrase en grain; reinforced by the phrase (dyed) in grain. See grain.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

ingrain (third-person singular simple present ingrains, present participle ingraining, simple past and past participle ingrained)

1. (transitive) To dye with a fast or lasting colour.
2. (transitive, figuratively) To make (something) deeply part of something else.

   Synonyms: breed in the bone, embed, infix, instill, radicate

Translations

Adjective

ingrain (not comparable)

1. Dyed with grain, or kermes.
2. Dyed before manufacture; said of the material of a textile fabric; hence, in general, thoroughly inwrought; forming an essential part of the substance.

   • When were such changes ever made in men's natural relations to one another: when was such reconcilement of ingrain differences ever effected!

Noun

ingrain (plural ingrains)

1. An ingrain fabric, such as a carpet.

Anagrams

• Ingrian, raining