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[ verb ] cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across

Synonyms

perfuse

Examples

"The sky was suffused with a warm pink color" also of liquids

Used in print

(Perry Miller "Theodore Parker: Apostasy within Liberalism"...)

It was `` Duty '' he said that his parents had given him as a rule - beyond even the love that suffused his being and the sense_of_humor with which he was largely supplied - and it was duty he would perform , though it cost him acute pain and exhausted him by the age of fifty .

(Idwal Jones, "Santa Cruz Run"...)

An agreeable ease suffused Vernon and the passengers of the tallyho , from which there issued clouds of smoke .

(The American-German Review,...)

Seeking an obscure , dark , relatively quiet corner in the airy room otherwise suffused with afternoon sunshine , he asked if the soft background music could be turned_off .

Related terms

flush permeation

2
[ verb ] to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light

Examples

: "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew"

Related terms

change permeation

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