Suffuse
verb
To gradually spread through or over.
A blush suffused her cheeks
Often appears as...
- suffuse with light
- suffuse with color
verb
To cause to be full of a feeling or quality.
Her voice was suffused with happiness
Often appears as...
- suffuse with pride
- suffuse with joy
verb
To gradually spread through or over.
A blush suffused her cheeks
Often appears as...
- suffuse with light
- suffuse with color
verb
To cause to be full of a feeling or quality.
Her voice was suffused with happiness
Often appears as...
- suffuse with pride
- suffuse with joy
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Pro Tip 1/3Spreading Sensation
Often used to describe sensations or feelings that slowly fill an area or space.
Warmth suffused the room as the fire grew.
Pro Tip 2/3Soft Transition
Suffuse indicates a gentle or gradual introduction rather than a sharp change.
Dusk suffused the sky, turning it pink and orange.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Subtlety
Can express a change in emotion that becomes visible to others, usually in a restrained way.
Pride suffused his expression after the applause.
Pro Tip 1/3Spreading Sensation
Often used to describe sensations or feelings that slowly fill an area or space.
Warmth suffused the room as the fire grew.
Pro Tip 2/3Soft Transition
Suffuse indicates a gentle or gradual introduction rather than a sharp change.
Dusk suffused the sky, turning it pink and orange.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Subtlety
Can express a change in emotion that becomes visible to others, usually in a restrained way.
Pride suffused his expression after the applause.
Pro Tip 1/3Spreading Sensation
Often used to describe sensations or feelings that slowly fill an area or space.
Warmth suffused the room as the fire grew.
Pro Tip 2/3Soft Transition
Suffuse indicates a gentle or gradual introduction rather than a sharp change.
Dusk suffused the sky, turning it pink and orange.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Subtlety
Can express a change in emotion that becomes visible to others, usually in a restrained way.
Pride suffused his expression after the applause.
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Video examples
Robert Wright: The...
So, there's plenty of non-zero-sumness. And so, the question If there's so much non-zero-sumness, why has the world not yet been suffused in love, peace, and understanding? The answer's complicated. It's the occasion for a whole other talk.
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The most colorful...
The green light will scatter throughout the gemstone and reflect back with varying intensities— from most angles suffused, from some entirely dimmed, and others dazzlingly bright.
Video examples
Robert Wright: The...
So, there's plenty of non-zero-sumness. And so, the question If there's so much non-zero-sumness, why has the world not yet been suffused in love, peace, and understanding? The answer's complicated. It's the occasion for a whole other talk.
Video examples
The most colorful...
The green light will scatter throughout the gemstone and reflect back with varying intensities— from most angles suffused, from some entirely dimmed, and others dazzlingly bright.
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Quote examples
Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?
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Lee Siegel
American Critic
Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience.
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George Saunders
American Writer
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
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Andrew Ridgeley
English Singer
I had always been aware of George's importance to me, of the bond of friendship and of the sparkle and light, effervescence and electricity that suffused the music we made.
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Matt Taibbi
American Author
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
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Reuven Rivlin
Israeli Politician
Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem.
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Pat Buchanan
American Journalist
If the Islamic world is so suffused with rage and hatred of us - for our wars, occupations, drone attacks, support of Israel, decadent culture, and tolerance of insults to Islam and the Prophet - why should we call for free elections, when the people will use those elections to vote into power rulers hostile to the United States?
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Lee Siegel
American Critic
Every 'Oprah Winfrey Show' has about it the aura of Oprah's own life, just as the rituals and sacraments of a religion are suffused with the life of the religion's founder. Above the testimony of Oprah's guests hovers what viewers know about Oprah's experience.
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George Saunders
American Writer
A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon, if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres, the same lively, generous intelligence suffusing all he did.
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Andrew Ridgeley
English Singer
I had always been aware of George's importance to me, of the bond of friendship and of the sparkle and light, effervescence and electricity that suffused the music we made.
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Matt Taibbi
American Author
The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
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Reuven Rivlin
Israeli Politician
Arik is suffused with a mystical belief about Jerusalem.
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