suffuse
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
suffuse (suffuses, present participle suffusing; past and past participle suffused)
- (transitive) To spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
- The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
- (transitive, figuratively) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
- The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
- (transitive) To pour underneath.
- German: überziehen, bedecken, durchfluten, erfüllen
- Portuguese: infundir
- German: durchziehen, überziehen, bedecken
suffuse
- Suffused; diffuse.
- 1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243:
- This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.
- 2014, Rita Petrini, Through the Curtain of Time and Space (ISBN 9781483543697):
- Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum.
- 1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243:
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