Definition of "transfuse" [trans•fuse]

• To pour (something) out of one vessel into another. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to be instilled or imparted: transfused a love of learning to her children. (verb-transitive)
• To diffuse through; permeate: a glade that was transfused with sunlight. (verb-transitive)
• Medicine To administer a transfusion of or to. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "In the Wall St. Journal interview you described the methods the team used to transfuse blood during that Tour – first at a hotel in St. Leonard-de-Noblat on the first rest day and then later as the race reached the Alps."
• "Did he eat tainted meat during training, draw that blood and then transfuse it back during the Tour?"
• "There is no need to transfuse today's social diseases into the simpler bloodstream of yesterday."