Definition of Suffuse

1. Verb. Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across. "Water and alcohol suffuse the cloth"; "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color"

Exact synonyms: Perfuse
Generic synonyms: Flush
Derivative terms: Suffusion, Suffusive

2. Verb. To become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light. "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew"
Generic synonyms: Change
Derivative terms: Suffusion, Suffusive

Definition of Suffuse

1. v. t. To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.

Definition of Suffuse

1. Verb. (transitive) To spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to perfuse. ¹

2. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Suffuse

1. to spread through or over [v -FUSED, -FUSING, -FUSES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Suffuse

suffraginous
suffragist
suffragists
suffrance
suffrutescent
suffrutex
suffruticose
suffumigate
suffumigated
suffumigates
suffumigating
suffumigation
suffumigations
suffumige
suffumiges
suffuse (current term)
suffused
suffuses
suffusing
suffusion
suffusions
suffusive
sufganiyah
sufganiyot
sug-
sugammadex
sugan
sugans
sugar-baker

Literary usage of Suffuse

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Immortality, a Study of Belief, and Earlier Addresses by William Newton Clarke (1920)
"To quicken and deepen the life of men with God, and to suffuse all human existence with the glow of the glory of God in Christ, this was now his sole aim, ..."

2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. Pope. Hers was a face suffused with the fine ... a pouring out or over, a spreading: see suffuse.] 1. ..."

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