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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of infuse.

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Examples

  • To pay tribute to the orange gourd (is it a gourd?) the folks at Express have come up with a list of hot spots you can go to taste pumpkin infused beverages.

    Lori's A.M. Buzz: 'Bye rain, hello pumpkins Washington Post editors 2010

  • Or perhaps … a Gremlin infused Murloc? or a Were-Murloc?

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Sketch a Day: 01-05-2008 2008

  • The racist definition of a word infused in ignorance and degradation — the n-word — was being used without impunity, in an affectionate and endearing manner.

    Scrutinizing NAACP's Burial of the N-word 2007

  • For the proper use of the word infused, in speaking of the graces of God, is an abuse of it; for those graces are virtues, not bodies to be carried hither and thither, and to be poured into men as into barrels.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Hotshot young general manager Theo Epstein infused the team with unselfish, blue-collar players who reflect the personality of their manager.

    USATODAY.com - Boston fans rock New England 2003

  • For the proper use of the word infused, in speaking of the graces of God, is an abuse of it; for those graces are virtues, not bodies to be carried hither and thither, and to be poured into men as into barrels.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • The Logos is the creative word that God spoke, and it was a word infused with deep wisdom, hidden throughout the ages.

    HANDS Across the Godhead? James F. McGrath 2010

  • Without the divine grace to obtain perfect justice or what is also called infused justice, then we would never be able to even begin to see Creation as God see is.

    Part III: Piety the Just Gift elena maria vidal 2009

  • “More than you,” Worf said, every word infused with contempt.

    A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

  • “More than you,” Worf said, every word infused with contempt.

    A Time to Kill David Mack 2004

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