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suffuse
Suffuse (verb) means to spread across or through something, such as light or colour filling a space.
verb
1
To spread across or through something, such as light or colour filling a space.
"The entire room was suffused with a golden light."
2
To spread across something the way a liquid does.
"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."
— David Sims, A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum (2019)
"The warmth suffused his cold fingers."
3
To pour something so that it flows beneath something else.
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Etymology
From Latin suffundō.
Synonyms
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perfuse
Rhymes for suffuse
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What is the meaning of suffuse?
"suffuse" (verb) means to spread across or through something, such as light or colour filling a space.
What is another word for suffuse?
Other words for "suffuse" include perfuse.
What are the different meanings of suffuse?
"suffuse" has 3 main meanings: 1. To spread across or through something, such as light or colour filling a space; 2. To spread across something the way a liquid does; 3. To pour something so that it flows beneath something else.
