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
Etymology
Origin of interfuse
First recorded in 1585–95; from Latin interfūsus, past participle of interfundere “to pour between”; see origin at 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
None can have failed to observe that, having recreated the story of adventure, he seemed in his later fiction to interfuse a subtler purpose—the search for character, the analysis of mind and soul.
From Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial by Japp, Alexander H. (Alexander Hay)
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.
Think of loving and being loved; I swear to you, whoever you are, you can interfuse yourself with such things that everybody that sees you shall look longingly upon you.
From Poems By Walt Whitman by Rossetti, William Michael
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.
We are, he shows, so interfused with the environment that all life might be seen as a web of genes, and all minds a web of memes.
From Nature ● Jan. 13, 2020
The history and the taste of gin are interfused, ceaselessly, twist upon twist.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 2, 2019
The picture also shows a bank of fog-like, low-lying haze illuminated by the setting sun against Pluto's dark side, and interfused with shadows from nearby mountains.
From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2015
He makes an important claim about how the particular and the general, the individual and the communal, are interfused.
From Slate ● Jun. 27, 2013
In his thoughts "truth is constantly becoming interfused with fiction, possibility with certainty, and the hyperbolical extravagance of his style only keeps even pace with the prolific shootings of his imagination."
From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John
Amid such splendor I began to realize that love has the power of spiritualizing all things, of interfusing them with its own rapture.
From The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by Bradshaw, William Richard
Sometimes the colours ran together, and made a little river or lake of lambent, interfusing, and changing tints, which, by their variegation, seemed to imitate the flowing of water, or waves made by the wind.
From The Princess and Curdie by MacDonald, George
And to him, who sits there dreaming, musing, At the window in the twilight wan, Like old scent of roses interfusing, Comes a vision of a day that's gone.
From The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy by Cawein, Madison Julius
Sometimes the colours ran together, and made a little river or lake of lambent interfusing and changing tints, which, by their variegation, seemed to imitate the flowing of water, or waves made by the wind.
From The Princess and Curdie by MacDonald, George
For over all these things, and interfusing itself with the sparkling electricity in which she seemed to swim, was an ever-creeping and condensing haze of ambiguities.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman
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