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
“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
For, build with what materials she may, the works of genius that stand in the world of thought survive all time's mutations, cemented by a spirit she alone can interfuse.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
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 Mrs. Humphry Ward
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
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
The materialistic Anima Mundi, interfused with the universe and the nature of man, becomes the infinitely benign Creator, Providence, and Guardian, the Father, and almost the Friend of men.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
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
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
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
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 William Richard Bradshaw
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