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598 words match “FUSE”

INCONFUSED a.
Not confused; distinct. [Obs.]
INFUSE v. 6 definitions
r in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed. That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse. Denham.
INFUSER n.
One who, or that which, infuses.
INTERFUSE v. 3 definitions
To pour or spread between or among; to diffuse; to scatter. The ambient air, wide interfused, Embracing round this florid earth. Milton.
PERFUSE v.
To suffuse; to fill full or to excess. Harvey.
PROFUSE a. 3 definitions
th fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality. A green, shady bank, profuse of flowers. Milton.
PROFUSELY adv.
In a profuse manner.
PROFUSENESS n.
Extravagance; profusion. Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness. Atterbury.
REFUSE v. 8 definitions
as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. That never yet refused your hest. Chaucer.
REFUSER n.
One who refuses or rejects.
SUFFUSE v.
read, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes. When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. Pope.
SUPERFUSE a.
To pour (something) over or on something else. [Obs.] Evelyn.
SUPERINFUSE v.
To infuse over. [R.]
TRANSFUSE v. 3 definitions
To cause to pass from to another; to cause to be instilled or imbibed; as, to transfuse a spirit of patriotism into a man; to transfuse a love of letters. Into thee such virtue and grace Immense I have transfused. Milton.
ABASH v.
To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.
ABHOR v.
To protest against; to reject solemnly. [Obs.] I utterly abhor, yea, from my soul Refuse you for my judge. Shak.
ABROACH adv.
Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir. "Mischiefs that I set abroach." Shak.
ADDLE a.
ost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.
AERIFY v.
To infuse air into; to combine air with.
ALCOHOL n.
ethyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.
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