suffuse

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/səˈfjuːz/(US)

Definition of suffuse

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  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.”
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verb

  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.
    “The warmth suffused his cold fingers.”
    “Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look.”
    “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.”
  3. (transitive)To pour underneath.

adj

  1. Suffused; diffuse.
    “This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.”
    “Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum.”

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Etymology

From Latin suffundō.

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