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
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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
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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
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 Augustus J. Thebaud
“Alpheus, Elis’ stream, they say, Beneath the seas here found his way, And now his waters interfuse With thine, O fountain Arethuse, Beneath Sicilian skies.”
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
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
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 Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
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
To take an illustration from his own science, his faculties interpenetrated and interfused themselves into each other, as the gases do, by a law of their nature.
From Spare Hours by John Brown
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 Madison Julius Cawein
Of course we must guard against hasty generalizations, since the interfusing of various elements in our Western States is producing new types of manhood.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 by Various
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 George MacDonald
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 George MacDonald
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 Herman Melville
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