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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To pour or diffuse around; spread.
  2. v. To surround, as with liquid; suffuse.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To pour around; spread about; suffuse.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To pour round; to spread round, as a fluid.
  2. v. To spread round; to surround.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To pour round; to spread round.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. spread something around something

Etymologies

  1. Latin circumfundere, circumfūs- : circum-, circum- + fundere, to pour; see gheu- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “As to the last, she did not think Frank had money enough yet to "circumfuse," she said, in that way.”

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  • “I almost think I could love him, whoever it be, on whom thou wouldst shed the rays that circumfuse thyself.”

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  • “Farmers, he added, are also advised to circumfuse their farms with plastic sheets, a method known as total rat barrier system, one month before the regular planting.”

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  1. scatter
  1. spread out
  1. spread

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