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inject

verbattested in dialogue

  • //ɪnˈd͡ʒɛkt//

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

verb

  1. 1

    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. 2

    To introduce (something) suddenly or violently.

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

    Caesar also, then hatching tyranny, injected the same scrupulous demurs.

  3. 3

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

    Now lie back while we inject you with the anesthetic.

    to inject the blood vessels

  4. 4

    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. 5

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

    Yes, you'll have to use CreateRemoteThread to "inject code" if you want information like the current directory of a process (at least on NT 3.5x).

    As soon as a virus programmer discovers that some popular ActiveX thing has a bug that can be exploited, e.g. with controlled crashes to inject code, it's going to be a disaster.

    A quick test to see if I can inject SQL data is to enter my username and password as 'a.

    DOM XSS is an unusual method for injecting JavaScript into a user's browser.

  6. 6

    obsoleteTo cast or throw; used with on.

    And mound inject on mound.

  7. 7

    To introduce or add (something that is different or foreign).

    inject something into orbit

    inject some spice into my life

    This passage seems unfortunately to have set the tone, among English writers, for comment on the expedition, and quite wrongly since Gamitto used his donkey to inject some much needed light relief among the difficulties and privations of the journey.

    Although you must admit that'd inject some spice into my life.

Etymology

From Latin iniectus, injectus, participle of iniciō, injiciō (“to throw in”), from in- + iaciō (“I throw”).

Forms

past tense
injected
past participle
injected
present participle
injecting
third person singular
injects
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).