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)
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
This alone made it possible to interfuse the two writings as we now have them in the Pentateuch.
From Prolegomena by Wellhausen, Julius
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
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 story is an extremely interesting one, full of incident, told in a quiet, healthful way, and with a great deal of pleasantly interfused information about, wild pigs and their ways.
From Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant by Alger, Horatio
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
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
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
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
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