TRANSFUSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does transfuse mean? 

• TRANSFUSE (verb)
  The verb TRANSFUSE has 4 senses:

1. impart gradually

2. pour out of one vessel into another

3. treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin

4. give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to

  Familiarity information: TRANSFUSE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSFUSE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they transfuse    ... he / she / it transfuses   
Past simple: transfused   
Past participle: transfused   
-ing form: transfusing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Impart gradually

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Synonyms:

instill; transfuse

Context example:

transfuse love of music into the students

Hypernyms (to "transfuse" is one way to...):

add; bestow; bring; contribute; impart; lend (bestow a quality on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "transfuse"):

breathe (impart as if by breathing)

Sentence frames:

Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pour out of one vessel into another

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "transfuse" is one way to...):

pour (cause to run)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Treat by applying evacuated cups to the patient's skin

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

cup; transfuse

Hypernyms (to "transfuse" is one way to...):

care for; treat (provide treatment for)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "transfuse" is one way to...):

administer; dispense (give or apply (medications))

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Derivation:

transfusion (the introduction of blood or blood plasma into a vein or artery)

 Context examples 

These CTLs are transfused back into the patient for cancer therapy.

(AAV-DC-CTL Tumor Cell Targeting Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

Transfusing the oldest red cells in the stored inventory first is standard practice among many hospitals.

(Fresh red blood cell transfusions do not help critically ill children more than older cells, National Institutes of Health)

When it was all over, we were standing beside Arthur, who, poor fellow, was speaking of his part in the operation where his blood had been transfused to his Lucy's veins; I could see Van Helsing's face grow white and purple by turns.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A method of hematopoietic reconstitution, Peripheral Stem Cell Transplants utilize (transfuse) hematopoietic stem cells harvested from circulating blood of an autologous, syngeneic, or allogeneic donor to reconstitute the bone marrow of the transplant recipient.

(Peripheral Stem Cell Transplant, NCI Thesaurus)