inject
verb
[ ɪnˈdʒɛkt ]
• introduce (a liquid, especially a drug or vaccine) into the body with a syringe.
• "the doctor injected a painkilling drug"
Similar:
administer,
introduce,
administer a drug to,
inoculate,
vaccinate,
shoot,
shoot up,
mainline,
fix (up),
pop,
• introduce (something) under pressure into a passage, cavity, or solid material.
• "inject the foam and allow it to expand"
• introduce (a new or different element) into something.
• "she tried to inject scorn into her tone"
• place (a spacecraft or other object) into an orbit or trajectory.
• "many meteoroids are injected into hyperbolic orbits"
Origin:
late 16th century (in the sense ‘throw or cast on something’): from Latin inject- ‘thrown in’, from the verb inicere, from in- ‘into’ + jacere ‘throw’.
