Suffuse (verb)
Pronunciation: [sê-'fyuz]
Definition: To spread throughout or all over, to permeate or infuse thoroughly.
Usage: Today's word has a near synonym in perfuse "to pour all over or throughout." To effuse is to pour forth, usually profusely, as blood from a serious wound or good spirits from a happy person. To infuse is to pour into so as to permeate. The noun for today's word is "suffusion" and the adjective, suffusive "tending to suffuse," as a suffusive sense of happiness at the arrival of spring.
Suggested Usage: In 'Desire under the Elms,' Eugene O'Neill sets this scene: "The sky above the roof is suffused with deep colors, the green of the elms glows, but the house is in shadow, seeming pale and washed out by contrast." Suffusion can be a bad thing: "The soil was suffused with so much mercury that nothing could be built on it." It can just as well be good, "Her every word was suffused with warmth and understanding."
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