inject

Other forms of inject

past tense

injected·

present participle

injecting·

third person

injects·

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.

Questions about inject

What does inject mean?

inject means "give an injection to". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in inject?

inject has 2 syllables: in-ject. The stress falls on "ject". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdʒɛkt/.

What is another word for inject?

Close synonyms include shoot, shoot, interject, come in, interpose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is inject a common word?

inject is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with inject?

5 words rhyme with inject. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.