diffuse
verb (used with object)
to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
had diffused
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past perfectof diffuse.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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He found that a term for maize had diffused from the Chibchan language into Mayan languages, further supporting the idea of a Chibchan origin of maize.
From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2022
By 2002, once-hot fusion cuisine had diffused into Ming Tsai’s agreeably bland Food Network programming and the sort of Chinese chicken salad with fried wontons you might find at the airport.
From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2012
He sees it as something of a happy medium between Fascist realism and "the form which cubism had diffused to the point of meaninglessness."
From Time Magazine Archive
So many joint successes, magnified too by report, had diffused confidence and intoxication throughout Paris.
From Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II by Pierre Alexandre Édouard, baron Fleury de Chaboulon
Lancelot's watering-can had diffused its final shower, and the oleanders and pomegranates, grateful for the refreshing coolness, were giving out their most delicious odors.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Holme Lee
