injecting

3 definitions • 3 examples

present participle of

to use a needle and syringe (= small tube) to put a liquid such as a drug into a person's body:

inject yourself with something Phil's a diabetic and has to inject himself with insulin every day.

to introduce something new that is necessary or helpful to a situation or process:

be injected into something A large amount of money will have to be injected into the company if it is to survive.

inject something into something I tried to inject a little humour into the meeting.