suffuse
verb (used with object)
to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
had suffused
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past perfectof suffuse.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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When Ms. Walls became a journalist, she felt that she had at last cut herself off from the fantastic atmosphere that had suffused her chaotic upbringing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2023
Rue and fury had suffused the cinematic mood.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2020
Ms. Fortin, 64, was the daughter of a World War II veteran who, in her recollection, had suffused the household with silent rage.
From New York Times ● Jun. 27, 2014
I had a sense of foreboding much like the one that had suffused so many of my days at Sing Sing—a feeling of imminent confrontation, of badness just ahead.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
And in a voice of command he pronounced a formula of exorcism that banished from Arria's cheeks the purple tints with which the black wine from the myrrhine vase had suffused them.
From One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules by Th?ophile Gautier
