- past progressive of diffuse.
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
“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
In the Manor itself Warde's influence was hardly yet perceptible: only a very few knew that it was diffusing itself, percolating into nooks and crevices, undreamed of: the hearts of the Fourth Form, for instance.
From The Hill A Romance of Friendship by Vachell, Horace Annesley
