Infix

v. t.	1.	To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart. [imp. & p. p. Infixed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Infixing.] The fatal dart a ready passage found, And deep within her heart infixed the wound. - Dryden.
	2.	To implant or fix; to instill; to inculcate, as principles, thoughts, or instructions; as, to infix good principles in the mind, or ideas in the memory.
n.	1.	Something infixed.
	2.	(Grammar) An element that is inserted into the body of an elemt which it threby modifies, as a letter within a word.

Noun	1.	infix - an affix that is inserted inside the word
Verb	1.	infix - put or introduce into something; "insert a picture into the text" Synonyms: insert, introduce, enter
	2.	infix - attach a morpheme into a stem word

IC analysis, accidence, add, adjoin, affix, affixation, agglutinate, allomorph, allonge, annex, append, appendix, aside, attach, beat into, bed, bound morpheme, brainwash, burden, catechize, coda, codicil, commentary, complicate, condition, confirm, conjoin, conjugation, cutting, declension, decorate, deep-dye, define, derivation, difference of form, embed, enclitic, encumber, engraft, engrave, entrench, envoi, epilogue, episode, establish, etch, fit in, fix, formative, found, free form, glue on, grave, ground, hitch on, imbue, immediate constituent analysis, impact, implant, impregnate, impress, imprint, inculcate, indoctrinate, infixation, inflection, infuse, ingrain, injection, inlay, inoculate, inscribe, inseminate, insert, insertion, insinuation, instill, intercalation, interjection, interlineation, interlocution, interpolation, introduction, jam, join with, lodge, marginalia, morph, morpheme, morphemic analysis, morphemics, morphology, morphophonemics, note, obiter dictum, ornament, pack, paradigm, parenthesis, paste on, plant, plus, postfix, postscript, prefix, prefixation, print, proclitic, program, put with, radical, remark, rider, root, saddle with, scholia, seat, set, set in, settle, side remark, slap on, stamp, stem, stereotype, subjoin, suffix, suffixation, superadd, superpose, tack on, tag, tag on, tail, tessellate, theme, tossing-in, unite with, wedge, word-formation

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