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transfuse verb [ transˈfjuːz ]

• transfer (blood or its components) from one person or animal to another.
• "it is usual to transfuse blood screened for cytomegalovirus"
• cause (something or someone) to be permeated or infused by something.
• "we became transfused by a radiance of joy"
Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘cause to pass from one person to another’): from Latin transfus- ‘poured from one container to another’, from the verb transfundere, from trans- ‘across’ + fundere ‘pour’.


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