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Definition

to add something to something else to make it better; or the thing added

Note that infusion can more specifically mean to add medicine or fluid to the blood stream through gravitational drip or pump.

It can also refer to a solution obtained by steeping or soaking a substance — such as tea or herbs in water.

The infusion of funds will allow us to open another location too.

infusion = to add something to make something else better

She infused the group with new energy and enthusiasm.
With the infusion pump we can infuse a tiny amount of the medicine each hour.
What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

infusion = to add something to something else to make it better

One company, called Tree Top, has developed a "low-moisture, naturally sweetened apple piece infused with a red-wine extract."
Michael Pollan -- The Omnivore's Dilemma

infused = to add something into something else to make it better

Powdered root of what to an infusion of what?
J.K. Rowling -- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
A hundred of his own Highgarden men had been added to the gold cloaks, yet plainly his lordship meant to resist any balancing infusion of westermen.
George R.R. Martin -- A Dance With Dragons
He wanted someone whose presence would, in his own words, "infuse their cause with an immediate tremor of awe and legitimacy."
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
It was being shipped at this very moment, ready to be whisked to the gateway cities, where it would be infused with the blood banks.
Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
Joy rushes to their eyes but it is misted over, infused with a sad and complex knowing.
Don DeLillo -- White Noise
She looks beautiful to him, tired, the concentrated light of the dying day on her face, infusing it with an amber-pink glow.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake
When you say remedies, do you mean your solutions, your infusions, or your suspensions?
Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
She seemed unaware of me, and her eyes were infused with a soft light.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
Suddenly many grandparents received a significant cash infusion (topping out at $3 per day, or twice the local median income).
Nicholas D. Kristof -- Half the Sky
Thou almost mak'st me waver in my faith, To hold opinion with Pythagoras That souls of animals infuse themselves Into the trunks of men.
William Shakespeare -- The Merchant of Venice
The power of Athena infused her cloak.
Rick Riordan -- The Blood of Olympus
He made some business decisions last year that required an infusion of capital.
David Baldacci -- Zero Day
And then there were the herbs: oil infusions of calamus, mugwort, sage, and wintergreen; cocktails made out of black cohosh and pennyroyal.
Jodi Picoult -- Nineteen Minutes
The entrance of Taylor infused fresh spirit into the company, and they remained sitting, till Arabella whispered to her father: "Now we may as well go."
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
Troy and the rest are the necessary .... infrastructure costs for our next big capital infusion.
John Ringo -- Live Free or Die

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