suffuse
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/səˈfjuːz/(US)
Definition of suffuse
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(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
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(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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(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.”
- (transitive)To pour underneath.
adj
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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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Latin suffundō.
Words you can make from suffuse
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