Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To spread through or over, as with liquid or light.
- transitive verb To fill thoroughly or permeate, as with a quality or emotion: synonym: imbue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; fill or cover, as with something fluid: as, eyes suffused with tears.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
spread through or over something, especially as aliquid ,colour orlight ; toperfuse . - verb transitive, figuratively To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
- verb to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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If the truths of the Catholic faith do not suffuse these endeavors, the university simply is not Catholic.
Education 2009
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Perhaps Dr Nunn will tell us some day if quantum memories are like the human ones that suffuse this room – memories of 30-year-old kisses and of bedtime stories read by one of the RSC's most seductive voices, all locked, perhaps subatomically, in these very walls.
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Messner regarded her in a way that was almost paternal, what of the profundity of pity and patience with which he contrived to suffuse it.
A DAY'S LODGING 2010
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Spock allowed it to sweep over and through him, to buffet and suffuse him with impatience, frustration, and a determination to kill.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Then the light of the full moon began to suffuse his face, until he exploded with: That was my other dog.
MOON-FACE 2010
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And then, just ere our hands met, a twinkle of -- oh -- such distant and controlled geniality quickened the many tiny wrinkles in the corner of the eyes; the clear blue of the eyes was suffused by an almost colourful warmth; the face, too, seemed similarly to suffuse; the thin lips, harsh-set the instant before, were as gracious as Bernhardt's when she moulds sound into speech.
CHAPTER I 2010
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Set to run for six hours, as per his own solstice tradition, the performance will incorporate projections of "The Movement of People Working," an attentive series of documentary films that Mr. Niblock started making in the '70s, as well as music that stands to swell and suffuse the room.
Experiments With the Solstice in a SoHo Loft Andy Battaglia 2011
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But there are times when he seems unable to: when his emotional reactions get the better of him, and suffuse his public rhetoric on foreign affairs and infuse his specific foreign policies.
Brent E. Sasley: The Passions of Erdoğan Brent E. Sasley 2012
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Spock allowed it to sweep over and through him, to buffet and suffuse him with impatience, frustration, and a determination to kill.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Spock allowed it to sweep over and through him, to buffet and suffuse him with impatience, frustration, and a determination to kill.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
jwjarvis commented on the word suffuse
disseminate
July 18, 2011