Invest vs Infuse - What's the difference?
invest | infuse |
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
To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To instill as a quality.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
To undergo infusion.
* Let it infuse for five minutes.
To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
(obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
* Denham
In intransitive terms the difference between invest and infuse
is that invest is to make investments while infuse is to undergo infusion.As verbs the difference between invest and infuse
is that invest is to clothe or wrap (with garments) while infuse is to cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.As a noun invest
is an unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.Anagrams
*infuse
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Verb
(infus)- One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
- Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
- infusing him with self and vain conceit
- That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.
- 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?
- (Francis Bacon)
- That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse .