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INJECT

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give an injection to

Example:

We injected the glucose into the patient's vein

Synonyms:

inject; shoot

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

administer; dispense (give or apply (medications))

Verb group:

inject; shoot (force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing)

Domain category:

medicine; practice of medicine (the learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "inject"):

infuse (introduce into the body through a vein, for therapeutic purposes)

immunise; immunize; inoculate; vaccinate (perform vaccinations or produce immunity in by inoculation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Sentence example:

Did he inject his foot?

Derivation:

injectable ((used of drugs) capable of being injected)

injectant (any solution that is injected (as into the skin))

injection (the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To introduce (a new aspect or element)

Example:

He injected new life into the performance

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

add (make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something PP

Sense 3

Meaning:

To insert between other elements

Example:

She interjected clever remarks

Synonyms:

come in; inject; interject; interpose; put in; throw in

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

break up; cut off; disrupt; interrupt (make a break in)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s that CLAUSE

Sense 4

Meaning:

Feed intravenously

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

feed; give (give food to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody with something
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sense 5

Meaning:

Take by injection

Example:

inject heroin

Classified under:

Verbs of eating and drinking

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

do drugs; drug (use recreational drugs)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "inject"):

mainline (inject into the vein)

pop (take drugs, especially orally)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

injectant (any solution that is injected (as into the skin))

Sense 6

Meaning:

Force or drive (a fluid or gas) into by piercing

Example:

inject hydrogen into the balloon

Synonyms:

inject; shoot

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "inject" is one way to...):

enclose; inclose; insert; introduce; put in; stick in (place, fit, or thrust (something) into another thing)

Verb group:

inject; shoot (give an injection to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody with something

Sentence examples:

They inject the fruit with a chemical

They inject a chemical into the fruit

Derivation:

injectable ((used of drugs) capable of being injected)

injection (the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure)

injector (a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.))

Credits

 Context examples: 

Bodies in the dissecting-rooms are injected with preservative fluid.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When APC8015F is injected into the patient, it may cause T cells (a type of white blood cell) to kill tumor cells that have PAP on them.

(APC8015F, NCI Dictionary)

BPA-F is injected into a blood vessel and collects in tumor cells.

(BPA-F, NCI Dictionary)

BSH is injected into a vein and becomes concentrated in tumor cells.

(BSH, NCI Dictionary)

A small amount of a substance called radioactive MIBG is injected into a vein and travels through the bloodstream.

(MIBG scan, NCI Dictionary)

It can also be mixed with liquid and injected into your body with a needle.

(Methamphetamine, NIH: National Institute on Drug Abuse)

Microspheres injected into blood vessels that feed a tumor may kill the tumor by blocking its blood supply.

(Microsphere, NCI Dictionary)

A procedure in which medicine is injected directly into or around a nerve or into the spine to block pain.

(Nerve block, NCI Dictionary)

Radioactive octreotide, a drug similar to somatostatin, is injected into a vein and travels through the bloodstream.

(Octreotide scan, NCI Dictionary)

The radioactive substance is injected into the body, and locates and binds to specific cells or tissues, including cancer cells.

(Nuclear medicine scan, NCI Dictionary)