suffuse

English edit

WOTD – 18 October 2007

suffuse (third-person singular simple present suffuses, present participle suffusing, simple past and past participle suffused)

(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.
(transitive, figuratively) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
- 2019 March 28, David Sims, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum”, in The Atlantic‎^[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.
(transitive) To pour underneath.

to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light

to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid

suffuse (comparative more suffuse, superlative most suffuse)

Suffused; diffuse.
- 1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243:
  This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.
- 2014, Rita Petrini, Through the Curtain of Time and Space, →ISBN:
  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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