All 3 Uses of
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Catch-22
- Like all the other officers at Group Headquarters except Major Danby, Colonel Cathcart was infused with the democratic spirit: he believed that all men were created equal, and he therefore spurned all men outside Group Headquarters with equal fervor.†
Chpt 6infused = added something to something else to make it better
- The heady taste of success had infused him further with morality and fired him with ambition for loftier attainments.†
Chpt 12 *
- She gazed at him with new approval when she stopped, the lush, responsive tissues of her dark face turning darker still and blooming somnolently with a swelling and beautifying infusion of blood.†
Chpt 16
Definitions:
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(1)
(infusion) to add something to something else; or the thing added
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More specifically, infusion can 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.