Meaning

3 senses

  1. (transitive)To instill.

  2. (transitive)To insert a morpheme inside an existing word.

    attach a morpheme into a stem word

  3. (archaic, transitive)To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in.

    to infix a sting, spear, or dart

    The fatal Dart a ready Passage found, And deep within his Heart infix’d the Wound:

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Are there infixes in English? Abso-fucking-lutely!

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Origin

Back-formation from Middle English infixed (“stuck in”), from Latin infixus, past particip

Back-formation from Middle English infixed (“stuck in”), from Latin infixus, past participle of infigō (“to fasten in”).

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Forms

infixes, infixing, infixed, infixed
Base forminfix · to infix
3rd person singularinfixes
Present participleinfixing
Past simpleinfixed
Past participleinfixed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyinfix
he, she, itinfixes

Past simpleLesson

all personsinfixed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave infixed
he, she, ithas infixed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill infix

Synonyms

3 synonyms
Close in meaning

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
infirminfirmaryinfirmityinflameinflammableinflammationB2
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