Pronunciations (2)
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/səˈfjuːz/
Pronunciation notes
- Received-Pronunciation
- US
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səˈfjuːz
Verb
To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
Usage- Transitive
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The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
Usage- Figurative
- Transitive
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The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look.
More examples (1)
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.
To pour underneath.
Usage- Transitive
Adjective
Suffused; diffuse.
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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.
Verb
cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
- Synonyms
- Broader terms
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The sky was suffused with a warm pink color
to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light
- Broader terms
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His whole frame suffused with a cold dew