suffuse

present singular third person suffuses · participle present suffusing · participle past suffused · past suffused

1. transitiveTo spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.

   The entire room was suffused with a golden light.

2. figurativelytransitiveTo spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.

   The warmth suffused his cold fingers.

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   Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look.

   1983, Robert Ferro, The Family of Max Desir, page 87

   His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie.

   2019 March 28, David Sims, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum”, in The Atlantic

3. transitiveTo pour underneath.

comparative more suffuse · superlative most suffuse

1. Suffused; diffuse.

   This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.

   1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243

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   Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum.

   2014, Rita Petrini, Through the Curtain of Time and Space, →ISBN