Profuse vs Infuse - What's the difference?
profuse | infuse |
In great quantity or abundance.
* Milton
(obsolete) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
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 obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between profuse and infuse
is that profuse is (obsolete) to pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander while infuse is (obsolete) to pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.As verbs the difference between profuse and infuse
is that profuse is (obsolete) to pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander while infuse is to cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.As an adjective profuse
is in great quantity or abundance.profuse
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- She grew profuse amounts of zucchini and pumpkins.
- profuse''' hospitality; '''profuse''' apologies; '''profuse expenditure
- a green, shady bank, profuse of flowers
Verb
(profus)- (Chapman)
infuse
English
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 .
