Meaning & use
Injected
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Forced a liquid, especially a drug or fluid, into something using a needle or syringe, or introduced something into a situation or process.
See it in a sentence
The nurse injected the vaccine into the patient's upper arm.
The new manager injected fresh energy into the struggling sales team.
A note on using this word
Beyond medicine, 'injected' is common in figurative use, such as 'injected humor' into a speech or 'injected capital' into a business.
Words with a similar meaning
administeredintroduced
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Words with an opposite meaning
extractedwithdrew
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