transfuse

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to transfer blood or another fluid into a person's or animal's bloodstream

   The surgical team may need to transfuse additional blood during the operation.

2. 2
   verb

   literary: to fill or imbue someone or something with a quality, feeling, or energy

   Her arrival seemed to transfuse the exhausted group with fresh hope.

From Latin transfundere ("to pour from one vessel into another"), formed from trans- ("across") + fundere ("to pour"). The medical sense specializes the older idea of transferring a liquid.

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