Dictionary

suffuse en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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• /səˈfjuːz/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)

Etymology

From Latin suffundō.

Meanings

1. Suffused; diffuse.
   • This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent. 1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243:
   • Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum. 2014, Rita Petrini, Through the Curtain of Time and Space, →ISBN:

Forms

suffuse en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (US) audio
• /səˈfjuːz/ (Received-Pronunciation, US)

Etymology

From Latin suffundō.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
   • The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
2. (figuratively, transitive) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
   • Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look. 1983, Robert Ferro, The Family of Max Desir, page 87:
   • The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
   • His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie. 2019 March 28, David Sims, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum”, in The Atlantic:
3. (transitive) To pour underneath.

Forms

Deriveds

suffusedly · suffusable · suffusive · suffusely · unsuffused · suffusate · suffusion

Relateds

infuse

Synonyms

perfuse

Translations (23)

nl overgieten (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · no bre seg over (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · de bedecken (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid) · ru наполня́ть (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid) · pt infundir (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · uk заливати (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · de bedecken (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · ru охвати́ть (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid) · de durchziehen (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid) · ru охва́тывать (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid) · es repartir (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · nl bedekken (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · txb snätk- (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · es repartir (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid) · bg заливам (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · de überziehen (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid) · de erfüllen (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · de durchfluten (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · ru напо́лнить (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid) · uk покривати (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · uk наповнювати (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · de überziehen (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light) · bg разстилам се (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)