injectverb [ T ]
uk/ɪnˈdʒekt/us/ɪnˈdʒekt/inject verb [ T ] (DRUG)
to use a needle and syringe (= small tube) to put a liquid such as a drug into a person's body:
Phil's a diabetic and has to inject himself with insulin every day.
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Medicines & drugs: administering drugs & medicines
- anaesthesiology
- anaesthetist
- anesthesiology
- bolus
- dispense
- doping
- dose
- drug
- ED
- knock
- knock sb out
- overprescribe
- PCA
- prescribe
- put
- put sb on sth
- sedate
- sedation
- self-medicate
- tranquillize
inject verb [ T ] (SOMETHING NEW)
to introduce something new that is necessary or helpful to a situation or process:
A large amount of money will have to be injected into the company if it is to survive.
I tried to inject a little humour into the meeting.
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Causing things to happen
- -ization
- -ize
- actuation
- agent
- awaken (sth) in sb
- be associated with sth
- beget
- draw
- fuel
- instigate
- instigator
- introduce
- lie
- plant
- produce
- rise
- usher
- usher sth in
- wreak
- wrought
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