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SUFFUSE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across

Example:

The sky was suffused with a warm pink color

Synonyms:

perfuse; suffuse

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "suffuse" is one way to...):

flush (cause to flow or flood with or as if with water)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP

Sentence examples:

They suffuse the cloth with water and alcohol

Water and alcohol suffuse the cloth

Derivation:

suffusion (the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance)

suffusive (spreading through)

Sense 2

Meaning:

To become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light

Example:

His whole frame suffused with a cold dew

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "suffuse" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

suffusion (the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance)

suffusive (spreading through)

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