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suffuse

UK/səˈfjuːz/

suffuse verb: to spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.

Verb

suffuse (third-person singular simple present suffuses, present participle suffusing, simple past and past participle suffused)

  1. (transitive) To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
    • The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
  2. (figuratively, transitive) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
    • The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
    • Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look.1983, Robert Ferro, The Family of Max Desir, page 87
  3. (transitive) To pour underneath.

Adjective

suffuse (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
    • 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

suffuse meaning in Urdu, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

suffuse in Urdu

پانی سے ڈھک دینا, رنگ دینا

suffuse in Bengali

ছড়িয়ে পড়া, আপ্লুত করা

suffuse in Malayalam

spread over, permeate, spread throughout
പരക്കുക, പ്രസരിക്കുക, നടക്കുക, അലരുക, വിസരിക്കുക, വിസർപ്പിക്കുക

suffuse in Kannada

ಅಳುರು, ಕವಿ, ಕಪ್ಪು

Examples of suffuse in a sentence

  • Transcendence is the key characteristic of the sacration model — the world is suffused with the divine.
  • Earlier this year, the writer John Ganz argued that “Groyperism totally suffuses the cultural environment of the right.”
  • Unlike the other types, even with an iriscope, it's very difficult to ascertain the fibre structure as the iris is deeply suffused with pigment.

All 14 example sentences with suffuse

Synonyms of suffuse

Forms of suffuse

Verb
third-person singular presentsuffuses
present participlesuffusing
past participlesuffused
pastsuffused
Adjective
comparativemore suffuse
superlativemost suffuse

Origin of suffuse

From Latin suffundō.

Words formed from suffuse

Words that rhyme with suffuse

48 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about suffuse

What does suffuse mean?
Suffuse means to spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
What is suffuse in Urdu?
Suffuse in Urdu is پانی سے ڈھک دینا, رنگ دینا. See Suffuse meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is suffuse?
Suffuse can be a verb or an adjective.
How do you pronounce suffuse?
Suffuse is pronounced /səˈfjuːz/ (UK).
What is the past tense of suffuse?
The past tense of suffuse is suffused.

Words near suffuse in the dictionary

  1. suffumige
  2. suffumiges
  3. suffusable
  4. suffusate
  5. suffusates
  6. suffuse
  7. suffused
  8. suffusedly
  9. suffusely
  10. suffuses
  11. suffusing

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: suffuse (page history and authors); suffuse (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suffuse (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); suffuse (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); suffuse (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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