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Infuse vs Alcoholize - What's the difference?

infuse | alcoholize |

As verbs the difference between infuse and alcoholize

is that infuse is to cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill while alcoholize is to convert into alcohol by fermentation, or to increase the concentration of alcohol by rectification.

infuse

English

Verb

(infus)
  • To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
  • To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
  • * Coxe
  • One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
  • To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
  • * Shakespeare
  • Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
  • * Shakespeare
  • infusing him with self and vain conceit
  • To instill as a quality.
  • * Shakespeare
  • That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.
  • * Jonathan Swift
  • Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?
  • To undergo infusion.
  • * Let it infuse for five minutes.
  • To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
  • (Francis Bacon)
  • (obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
  • * Denham
  • That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse .

    References

    * 1902 Webster's International dictionary. * 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.

    See also

    * fuse ----

    alcoholize

    English

    Verb

    (alcoholiz)
  • To convert into alcohol by fermentation, or to increase the concentration of alcohol by rectification
  • To infuse or saturate with an alcoholic spirit
  • To subject to the influence of alcohol
  • (obsolete) To reduce to a fine powder
  • References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989