Inject

English

Verb

Inject (third-person singular simple present Injects, present participle Injecting, simple past and past participle Injected)

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

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

2. (transitive) To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.

   Punk injected a much-needed sense of urgency to the British music scene.

3. (transitive) To administer an injection to (someone), especially of medicine or drugs.

   Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.

4. (intransitive) To take or be administered something by means of injection, especially medicine or drugs.

   It's been a week since I stopped injecting, and I'm still in withdrawal.

5. (transitive, computing) To introduce (code) into an existing program or its memory space, often without tight integration and sometimes through a security vulnerability.

Related terms

• injectable
• injection

Adverbs for Inject

nypodermically; intravenously; insidiously; spitefully; slyly; salaciously; maliciously; medically; scientifically; methodically.

Thesaurus

animate, bathe, brew, bring in, douche, drench, drive in, drouk, ease in, embue, enliven, exhilarate, fire, flush, force in, imbrue, imbue, impregnate, infect, infiltrate, inform, infuse, inoculate, insert, insinuate, inspire, inspirit, interject, introduce, intromit, lave, leach, lixiviate, macerate, percolate, perfuse, permeate, pop in, put in, rinse, saturate, seethe, set in, slip in, soak, sodden, sop, souse, spirit, spirit up, steep, stick in, throw in, tuck in, wash, waterlog, whip in

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪnˈʤɛkt/

  Rhymes: -ɛkt