suffuse
verb (used with object)
to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
has suffused
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present perfectof suffuse (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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María Zardoya, musician As lead vocalist of L.A. lounge-pop romantics the Marías, Puerto Rican singer-songwriter Zardoya has suffused SoCal’s music scene with her enigmatic, Spanglish-language cool.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
But in director Alan Paul’s smart, tangy production at Olney Theatre Center, there’s slightly less of the pointed sleaze that has suffused other iterations of the Weimar Berlin nightspot.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 4, 2019
The memory of the nineteen-nineties has suffused the Democratic Presidential primary from the outset.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 12, 2016
Chazelle, a 28-year-old Harvard grad, has suffused most of his films with music.
From Time ● Oct. 9, 2014
The soul that is within the man has suffused his art and made it victorious.
From Little Masterpieces of Autobiography: Actors by George Iles
