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
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)
“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 Guerber, H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline)
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.
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