adj
Meaning 1
Suffused; diffuse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
suffuse
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation, US: /səˈfjuːz/
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rhymes with -uːz
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CMU ARPABET: S AH0 F Y UW1 Z Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
verb
Meaning 2
To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
Examples
- The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 3
To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: figuratively, transitive
Examples
- The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 4
To pour underneath.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: transitive
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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Antonyms: none provided
verb
Meaning 5
cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- The sky was suffused with a warm pink color
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: perfuse
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: flush
verb
Meaning 6
to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- His whole frame suffused with a cold dew
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: change
History
Etymology
From Latin suffundō.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: заливам (zalivam) — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- Bulgarian: разстилам се (razstilam se) — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- Dutch: bedekken — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- Dutch: overgieten — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- German: überziehen — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- German: bedecken — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- German: durchfluten — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- German: erfüllen — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- Norwegian: bre seg over — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- Portuguese: infundir — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- Spanish: repartir — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- Tocharian B: snätk- — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- Ukrainian: заливати (zalyvaty) — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- Ukrainian: покривати (pokryvaty) — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- Ukrainian: наповнювати (napovnjuvaty) — to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light
- German: durchziehen — to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid
- German: überziehen — to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid
- German: bedecken — to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid
- Russian: наполня́ть (napolnjátʹ) — to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid
- Russian: охва́тывать (oxvátyvatʹ) — to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid
- Russian: напо́лнить (napólnitʹ) — to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid
- Russian: охвати́ть (oxvatítʹ) — to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid
- Spanish: repartir — to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid