suffuse
[suh-fyooz]
- to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.
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The knowledge and performance of evil should suffuse one's daily life.
The Status CivilizationRobert Sheckley
What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?
The Sense of BeautyGeorge Santayana
They are not separately heard by the ear; they blend with the fundamental note and suffuse it, and alter it.
Creative IntelligenceJohn Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
His veins were beating as though they would burst the vessels in his temples, and suffuse his face with blood.
In the Roar of the SeaSabine Baring-Gould
It seemed that she, too, at that moment felt some of the glow that the fall of the Alamo was to suffuse through Texas.
The Texan ScoutsJoseph A. Altsheler
suffuse
- (tr; usually passive) to spread or flood through or over (something)the evening sky was suffused with red
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Word Origin
C16: from Latin suffūsus overspread with, from suffundere, from sub- + fundere to pour
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Word Origin and History for suffuse
v.
1580s, from Latin suffusus, past participle of suffundere (see suffusion). Related: Suffused; suffusing.
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