INJECT | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of inject in English

(Definition of inject from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of inject from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of inject from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of inject

inject
Then they inject the concentrated platelets at the site of the patient's injury.
From ESPN
He has launched a political organization that is injecting children's issues into the 2016 presidential race.
From The Hill
Surely if you inject $4.5 trillion into the economy, you will get economic growth.
Health co-ops, designed to inject competition into health care markets, are collapsing, stranding thousands of customers.
When they were injecting me, the silicone migrated to different parts of my body.
Oil majors are loth to inject cash because they do not know how much tax they will have to pay.
The result is removing huge amounts of water from one area, and injecting it in another are.
From Phys.Org
After feasting on the hospital's stash of blood, she injects the dying boy with the virus to save him.
From Variety
Insulin is injected under the skin with a needle and syringe.
From CNN
You can take blood from an animal with this behavior, inject it into a healthy animal, and that animal shows the same behavior.
From NPR
Some of them inject in the neck; wounds can result.
From NPR
With a phlegm theory, you can't build artificial consciousness, any more than you can make people lazy by injecting phlegm into them.
These partnerships inject private capital into a public project.
From ABC News
Because each animal was injected at a slightly different location, when taken together, the fluorescing proteins gave a snapshot of the network's shape.
From Gizmodo
Proteins on a phage's surface bind to proteins on a host cell, creating a passageway through which the phage can inject its genes.
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Translations of inject

in Chinese (Traditional)
藥, 注射, 給…注射…
in Chinese (Simplified)
药, 注射, 给…注射…
in Spanish
ponerle una inyección a, inyectar, introducir…
in Portuguese
aplicar uma injeção, injetar, acrescentar…
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~を注射する, 注射(ちゅうしゃ)する, 注入(ちゅうにゅう)する…
iğne yapmak, şırınga etmek, (değer…
injecter, apporter, faire une injection…
posar una injecció a, injectar…
inspuiten…
indsprøjte…
injicera…
menyuntik…
einspritzen…
injisere, sprøyte inn, bringe…
впорскувати, вводити…
делать укол, вводить (лекарство), привносить…
يَحْقُن…
dát injekci…
menyuntikkan…
ฉีด (ยา)…
tiêm…
wstrzykiwać, wprowadzać, zainwestować…
주사하다…
fare un’iniezione di, iniettare…
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