Suffuse

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Suffuse \Suf*fuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suffused}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Suffusing}.] [L. suffusus, p. p. of suffundere to
     overspread; sub under + fundere to pour. See {Fuse} to melt.]
     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.


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           When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  suffuse
       v 1: cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across;
            "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color" [syn: {perfuse}]
       2: to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of
          light; "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  54 Moby Thesaurus words for "suffuse":
     bathe, bespread, besprinkle, breathe, brew, color, cover,
     crawl with, creep with, decoct, diffuse, dredge, dye, entincture,
     extend throughout, fill, flavor, flood, flush, honeycomb, imbrue,
     imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, ingrain, inoculate, instill,
     interject, interpose, introduce, invest, leave no void, leaven,
     mantle, occupy, overrun, overspread, overswarm, penetrate,
     permeate, pervade, pour over, run through, saturate, season,
     spread over, steep, swarm with, teem with, temper, tincture, tinge,
     transfuse