Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Filled as by injection; hyperemic; bloodshot.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
inject .
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Examples
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Somehow the phrase injected fear into a whole franchise; for the Lakers came out of the gate extremely tight.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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Somehow the phrase injected fear into a whole franchise; for the Lakers came out of the gate extremely tight.
One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011
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Trilling wants something like the consciousness of sin injected into liberalism, and the "job of criticism" is thus the moral critic's job of raising our awareness of humankind's fallen state, something for which Trilling finds literature eminently useful.
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Reading D.A. is like a getting a shot of Heinlein injected directly into the bloodstream.
REVIEW: The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year Volume 1 edited by Jonathan Strahan 2007
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Once again, Sorkin injected far too much ‘real life politics’ into the episode and illustrated yet again that he inexplicably has nobody on his writing staff who can put together a funny comedy sketch.
Jenna Fischer Guests on Tonight’s STUDIO 60 | the TV addict 2007
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Reading D.A. is like a getting a shot of Heinlein injected directly into the bloodstream.
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Originally – but what they are fed and injected is not.
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Protons were injected from the proton synchrotron into the two rings which crossed each other at eight intersections where the protons were made to collide.
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In the face of the relatively large amounts of insulin injected into the mother, however, it is possible, in view of Allan's results, that the small contribution from the foetuses could have no measurable influence on the maternal sugar balance.
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But the phrase injected an expectation of immediate gratification that is unrealistic and an oversimplification of what is at stake in our schools.
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