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inject

verb/ɪnˈdʒɛk(t)/

to put a drug into your body through the skin

Like tens of thousands of other children, Thomas has to inject himself with insulin several times each day.

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word origin — late 16th century (in the sense ‘throw or cast on something’): from Latin inject- ‘thrown in’, from the verb inicere, from in- ‘into’ + jacere ‘throw’