interfuse
Americanverb (used with object)
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to intersperse, intermingle, or permeate with something.
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to blend or fuse, one with another.
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to pour or pass (something) between, into, or through; infuse.
verb (used without object)
verb
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to diffuse or mix throughout or become so diffused or mixed; intermingle
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to blend or fuse or become blended or fused
Other Word Forms
- interfusion noun
Etymology
Origin of interfuse
First recorded in 1585–95; from Latin interfūsus, past participle of interfundere “to pour between”; inter-, fuse 2
Example Sentences
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In what is easily the most revelatory show I’ve seen in this sluggish cabaret season, Ms. Starlite and her alter ego eerily interfuse.
From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2016
This alone made it possible to interfuse the two writings as we now have them in the Pentateuch.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
Yet there, also, Christian writers were too apt to interfuse the old ideas with the new, and to adopt doctrines placed, as it were, midway between those of Plato and St. Paul.
From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Thebaud, Augustus J.
The problem set before us is to bring our daily task into the temple of contemplation and ply it there, to act as in the presence of God, to interfuse one's little part with religion.
From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
My first endeavor to solve the new questions was to check the abandon of the trance condition, and interfuse it with more of sober consciousness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 by Various
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