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say it: in-FYOOZ
infuse is a verb meaning "teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions". It is pronounced /ˌɪnˈfjuz/ — in-FYOOZ. It carries 5 recorded senses.
fill, as with a certain quality
“The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide”
introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes
“Some physiologists infuses sugar solutions into the veins of animals”
medicine
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for infuse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.