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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of transfuse.

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Examples

  • A one-act show performed on a single set by five singing actors and accompanied by four virtuoso instrumentalists, it takes one of Shaw's talkiest plays, a study of what in 1894 would have been called a "modern" marriage, and transfuses it with the hot blood of pure lyricism.

    George Bernard Shaw, With Passion Terry Teachout 2011

  • Gramophone Award-winning harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï, who finished a U.S. tour last month with Bach recitals in Berkeley, Calif., and Tucson, Ariz., transfuses the sometimes anemic early music movement with red-blooded excitement.

    The Creative Harpsichordist 2008

  • With the future at stake, this is how the law's chilliest blood transfuses the veins of undemocratic America.

    The Pryor Threat 2003

  • She drugs you, transfuses you with foreign blood, and you defend her.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • She drugs you, transfuses you with foreign blood, and you defend her.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • She drugs you, transfuses you with foreign blood, and you defend her.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • She drugs you, transfuses you with foreign blood, and you defend her.

    The Hunger Whitley Strieber 1981

  • _Prose Idylls_, sketches of fen-land, trout streams, and moors, which combine his gifts so happily, his observation of natural objects, and the poetic imagination with which he transfuses these objects and brings them near to the heart of man.

    Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore

  • There is no repulsive formality, no array of logical presentment to arouse antagonism of thought, but only inglowing enthusiasm, that transfuses the Scriptural appeal, and illuminates it with winning illustration.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various

  • She moulds their habits and she transfuses into them the feelings, motives, and principles which actuate herself.

    Notable Women of Olden Time Anonymous

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