Inject

Quick meaning: Inject is a verb meaning (transitive) To push or pump (something, especially fluids) into a cavity or passage.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.
2. (transitive) To administer an injection to (someone or something), especially of medicine or drugs.
3. (intransitive) To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.
4. (transitive) To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign).
5. (transitive, computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.
6. (obsolete, transitive) To cast or throw; used with on.

Example Sentences

to inject the blood vessels

Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.

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

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

Word Forms

• injects
• injecting
• injected

Synonyms for inject

Depending on context, synonyms include shoot, interpose, interject, put in, throw in.

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