diffuse
verb (used with object)
to pour out and spread, as a fluid.
was diffusing
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past progressiveof diffuse.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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“You made deliberate physical contact with one of our game officials as he was diffusing an active confrontation between players,” Jon Runyan, NFL vice president of Football Operations, said in a letter to Lynch.
From Reuters ● Oct. 20, 2017
Perry starts doing that riff, he stops, and there was a moment when the audience was laughing and the whole thing was diffusing.
From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2015
Not a single cloud could be seen in the sky and the sun was diffusing like a softening ache.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 17, 2015
Light was diffusing into the cabin now that Pegasus had reached lower altitude.
From The Scarlet Lake Mystery by Harold L. (Harold Leland) Goodwin
They mounted the stairs, and entered a comfortable apartment, in which a fresh fire was diffusing a most welcome glow, and a spacious bed luxuriously invited occupancy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 by Various
