See Also: Brideshead Revisited(dictionary)

infuse (oh) and Brideshead Revisited (oh)


infuse (oh)



[Date: 1400-1500; Language: French; Origin: infuser, from Latin infundere, from fundere 'to pour']
[T] formal to fill something or someone with a particular feeling or quality
be infused with sth
::Her books are infused with humour and wisdom.
infuse sth into sth
::These new designers are infusing fresh interest into the New York Fashion scene.
[I and T] if you infuse tea or herbs, or if they infuse, you leave them in very hot water while their taste passes into the water

Brideshead Revisited (oh)



a novel by Evelyn Waugh, written in 1945. It is about a rich family who live in a large house in the country, and about upper-class young men at Oxford University in the 1920s.