INJECT

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To throw in; to dart in; to force in; as, to inject cold water into a condenser; to inject a medicinal liquid into a cavity of the body; to inject morphine with a hypodermic syringe.

2.
v.

Fig.: To throw; to offer; to propose; to instill. Cæsar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs. Milton.

3.
v.

To cast or throw; -- with on. [R.] And mound inject on mound. Pope.

4.
v.

To fill (a vessel, cavity, or tissue) with a fluid or other substance; as, to inject the blood vessels.


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