Verb

To draw air into (inhale), and expel air from (exhale), the lungs in order to extract oxygen and excrete waste gases.

To take in needed gases and expel waste gases in a similar way.

:Fish have gills so they can breathe underwater.

To use (a gas) to sustain life.

:While life as we know it depends on oxygen, scientists have speculated that alien life forms might breathe chlorine or methane.

Figuratively, to live.

:I will not allow it, as long as I still breathe .

*(rfdate) Shakespeare

*:I am in health, I breathe .

*(rfdate) Sir Walter Scott

*:Breathes there a man with soul so dead?

To draw something into the lungs.

:Try not to breathe too much smoke.

To expel air from the lungs, exhale.

:If you breathe on a mirror, it will fog up.

To pass like breath; noiselessly or gently; to emanate; to blow gently.

:The wind breathes through the trees.

*(rfdate) Shakespeare

*:The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.

*(rfdate) Byron

*:There breathes a living fragrance from the shore.

To give an impression of, to exude.

:The decor positively breathes classical elegance.

To whisper quietly.

:He breathed the words into her ear, but she understood them all.

To exchange gases with the environment.

:Garments made of certain new materials breathe well and keep the skin relatively dry during exercise.

To rest; to stop and catch one's breath.

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*:Thenne they lasshed to gyder many sad strokes / & tracyd and trauercyd now bakward / now sydelyng hurtlyng to gyders lyke two bores / & that same tyme they felle both grouelyng to the erthe / Thus they fought styll withoute ony reposynge two houres and neuer brethed

*(rfdate) Shakespeare

*:Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again!

To stop, to give (a horse) an opportunity to catch its breath.

:At higher altitudes you need to breathe your horse more often.

Verb

(en verb)

To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.

The nurse injected a painkilling drug into the veins of my forearm.

To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.

Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency into the British music scene.

* Milton

Caesar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.

To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.

Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.

to inject the blood vessels

To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.

It's been a week since I stopped injecting , and I'm still in withdrawal.

(computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.

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, year=1996 , monthday=November 11 , author=David Taillé , email=taille@calva.net , title=Getting Process information , id=MPG.cf15f0a5cfb22c3989699@news.calvacom.fr , group=comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32 citation

Yes, you'll have to use CreateRemoteThread to "inject code" if you want information like the current directory of a process (at least on NT 3.5x).

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, year=1999 , monthday=August 23 , author=Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein , email=osvaldo@visionnaire.com.br , title=Java is Going to Be the Death of Java , id=001b01beed13$76a66350$450510ac@mde.emn.fr , group=comp.lang.java.advocacy citation

As soon as a virus programmer discovers that some popular ActiveX thing has a bug that can be exploited, e.g. with controlled crashes to inject code, it's going to be a disaster.

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, year=2003 , author=Ryan Russell , title=Stealing the Network: How to Own the Box , chapter=The Thief No One Saw citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=146 , passage=A quick test to see if I can inject SQL data is to enter my username and password as 'a.}}

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, year=2007 , author=Jeremiah Grossman and Robert Hansen , title=XSS Attacks: Cross-Site Scripting Exploits and Defense , chapter=XSS Theory citation , isbn=1931836876 , page=86 , passage=DOM XSS is an unusual method for injecting JavaScript into a user's browser.}}

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, year=2010 , author=Andrew Moore , title=Visual Studio 2010 All-in-One for Dummies , chapter=AJAX Explained: What It Does and Why You Should Consider Using It citation , isbn=9780470539439 , page=410 , passage=The AJAX controls inject the appropriate JavaScript code into the HTML output stream without you needing to code any JavaScript yourself.}}

(obsolete) To cast or throw; used with on .

* Alexander Pope

And mound inject on mound.