Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or operation of suffusing or overspreading, as with a fluid or a color; also, the state of being suffused or overspread.
- noun That which is suffused or spread over, as an extravasation of blood.
- noun In entomology, a peculiar variegation, observed especially in Lepidoptera, in which the colors appear to be blended or run together.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.
- noun That with which a thing is suffused.
- noun (Zoöl.) A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun countable The act of pouring a liquid over something.
- noun uncountable The state of being wet.
- noun uncountable The state of becoming red on the surface.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
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Examples
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The tenderness of their green appeared under the glaucous mantle; while that grey suffusion, which is the blush of green life, spread its damask chastity.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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The tenderness of their green appeared under the glaucous mantle; while that grey suffusion, which is the blush of green life, spread its damask chastity.
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And as quickly as it had come to me, that sense of purpose, of belonging, it has dissipated, leaving behind only the warm suffusion of what there might someday be.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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And as quickly as it had come to me, that sense of purpose, of belonging, it has dissipated, leaving behind only the warm suffusion of what there might someday be.
Between Expectations Md Meghan Maclean Weir 2011
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A low-voltage landscape spotlight created the desired level and suffusion of light.
Outer Sanctum: Why we love to step outside the box to think inside the shed 2010
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I had longed for that twisted suffusion of cells, that genre of lovemaking that only our kind can do.
Magic X Nina Alvarez 2010
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Beyond the tilled plain, beyond the toy roofs, there would be a slow suffusion of inutile loveliness, a low sun in a platinum haze with a warm, peeled-peach tinge pervading the upper edge of a two-dimensional dove-grey cloud fusing with the distant amorous mist.
Nabokov's Art as Story ____Maggie 2008
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Beyond the tilled plain, beyond the toy roofs, there would be a slow suffusion of inutile loveliness, a low sun in a platinum haze with a warm, peeled-peach tinge pervading the upper edge of a two-dimensional dove-grey cloud fusing with the distant amorous mist.
Archive 2008-03-01 ____Maggie 2008
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Not without its playfulness and deadpan jokes, the uprooted Malay setting serves for a far more morose, empty and searching film, one whose suffusion with the dripping evening heat, lumberingly slow bodily movement, and general languor serve out the dance between the immigrants in a kind of humid, sorrowful slow motion.
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He was not so bewildered in his own hurried reflections but that he remarked, that the deadly paleness which had occupied her neck and temples, and such of her features as the riding-mask left exposed, gave place to a deep and rosy suffusion; and he felt with embarrassment that a flush was by tacit sympathy excited in his own cheeks.
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