Inject

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Inject \In*ject"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Injected}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Injecting}.] [L. injectus, p. p. of inicere, injicere, to
     throw in; pref. in- in + jacere to throw: cf. F. injecter.
     See {Jet} a shooting forth.]
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     1. To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold


        water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into
        a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic
        syringe.
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     2. Fig.: To throw; to offer; to propose; to instill.
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              C[ae]sar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the
              same scrupulous demurs.               --Milton.
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     3. To cast or throw; -- with on. [R.]
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              And mound inject on mound.            --Pope.
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     4. (Anat.) To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid
        or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.
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     5. to add in; to insert; to interject; as, to inject a
        comment into the conversation; to inject humor into a
        tense situation.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  inject
       v 1: give an injection to; "We injected the glucose into the
            patient's vein" [syn: {shoot}]
       2: to introduce (a new aspect or element); "He injected new
          life into the performance"
       3: force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing; "inject
          hydrogen into the balloon" [syn: {shoot}]
       4: take by injection; "inject heroin"
       5: feed intravenously
       6: to insert between other elements; "She interjected clever
          remarks" [syn: {interject}, {come in}, {interpose}, {put
          in}, {throw in}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "inject":
     animate, bathe, brew, bring in, douche, drench, drive in, drouk,
     ease in, embue, enliven, exhilarate, fire, flush, force in, imbrue,
     imbue, impregnate, infect, infiltrate, inform, infuse, inoculate,
     insert, insinuate, inspire, inspirit, interject, introduce,
     intromit, lave, leach, lixiviate, macerate, percolate, perfuse,
     permeate, pop in, put in, rinse, saturate, seethe, set in, slip in,
     soak, sodden, sop, souse, spirit, spirit up, steep, stick in,
     throw in, tuck in, wash, waterlog, whip in