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  • adjective abundant, copious, profuse
  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of profuse.

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Examples

  • If I had laid out that which I profused in Luxury and

    The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

  • Dr. NIKLASON: Well, they when we first sewed them in, they profused with blood and they filled with air and they exchanged oxygen and carbon dioxide very much like the native lungs.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • 3 When she tripped against the briery bush he profused her allover with curtsey flowers.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • This is me vulcanite smoking, profused Mr ‘Bonaparte

    Finnegans Wake 2006

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