Suffuse

Definition: Suffuse

Suffuse

Verb

1. Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across; "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color"; also of liquids.

2. To become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light: "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "suffuse" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references)

Note: Suffuse \Suf*fuse"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Suffused; present participle verb or noun Suffusing.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonym: Suffuse

Mixture

Instill, imbue; infuse, suffuse, transfuse; infiltrate, dash, tinge, tincture, season, sprinkle, besprinkle, attemper, medicate, blend, cross; alloy, amalgamate, compound, adulterate, sophisticate, infect.

Crosswords: Suffuse

All suffuse with an incandescent glow. (We Will All Go Together When We Go; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

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Reminiscent of ancient astronomic observatories, the last rays of the setting sun suffuse the entrance tunnel with a golden glow. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

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Albanian

mbyll (bung, calk, caulk, close, close up, commit, confine, crib, dry up, encase, enclose, encompass, end, entomb, fasten, furl, glue up, hush up, impound, inclose, key, lap, obturate, occlude, pen, screw on, seal, shut, shut down, shut up, shutter, stop, stop up, stuff, turn off, wind up, wrap up), mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, impregnate, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, tap, write out), mbuloj (be submerged, bespread, blanket, cap, Ceil, cloak, clothe, cover, cover in, cover over, cover up for, curtain, defray, disguise, dissimulate, enshroud, entwine, envelop, enwrap, heap, incase, mantle, overcast, overspread, paint out, roof, screen, sheathe, sheet, smother, tuck up, wrap). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لون (color, colour, dapple, paint, shade, stain, tinge, tint, variegate), ‏غمر (deluge, douse, dunk, engulf, float, flood, flow, gulf, immerse, immersion, inundate, inundation, load, overflow, overwhelm, sluice, souse, submerge, swamp, wash), ‏خضب (paint, pigment), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, permeate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разстилам се по. (various references)

Chinese 

遍布 (suffused, Suffusing). (various references)

Czech

zaplavit (flood, glut, inundate, overflow, overwhelm, snow under, submerge), zalít (spray, water). (various references)

Farsi 

فراگرفتن (Absorb, Comprehend, Engulf, Envelop, Form, Learn, Lick, Surround), پوشاندن (Apparel, Blanket, Camouflage, Case, Clothe, Coat, Cover, Emboss, Envelop, Immerse, Jacket, Line, Mask, Overcast, Sheath, Sheathe, Shroud, Submerge, Veil), پرکردن (Brim, Cram, Frank, Full, Glut, Heap, Load, Stow, Stud, Stuff, Thwack), اشباع کردن (Glut, Imbibe, Imbue, Indoctrinate, Inundate, Steep). (various references)

French

se répandre sur, pigmenter, colorer. (various references)

German

bedecken (cap, cover, eclipse, occult, overlay, to cover, to overcast, top). (various references)

Greek 

καλύπτω με υγρό, χρίω (anoint, confirm), επιχέω, απλώνω (lay out, put out, reach out, spread), αλείφω (anoint, coat, smear, spread with). (various references)

Hebrew 

לפעפע (bubble, diffuse, infiltrate, permeate, pervade), ל�"תפשט (expand, get about, pervade, propagate, spread, spread out). (various references)

Hungarian

elborít (overran, overrun, overwhelm, to engulf, to enshroud, to mantle, to overrun, to overwhelm, to suffuse), bevon (coat, douse, to call in, to clew up, to do over, to draw into, to film, to get down, to glaze, to revet, to revoke, to sheathe, to wash). (various references)

Italian

tingere (color, colour, dye, paint, stain, tinge), cospargere (besprinkle, constellate, dash, dust, intersperse, overspread, scatter, strew), coprire (be covered, become overcast, cap, cover, cover oneself, deck, drape, hold, lay down with, lay over, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overspread, screen, shroud, smother, to cover, top, veil, whitewash, wrap up). (various references)

Manx

lheanaghey er fud. (various references)

Pig Latin

uffusesay

Portuguese

inundar (bury, deluge, drown, flood, inundate, overflow, overrun, overspread, perfuse, run, shower, submerge, swim, waterlog), espalhar-se sobre (overspread), encher (charge, clog, close, deluge, distend, fill, fill in, fill up, flood, full, heap, impregnate, occupy, overspread, pad, pelt, people, perfuse, saturate, stuff, stuffing, to fill up), derramar-se sobre, cobrir (bescreen, blanket, case, clapboard, clothe, coat, come over, cope, cover, cover up, curtain, daub, deck, drape, encase, enfold, face, fleece, incase, mantle, muffle, overgrow, overlay, overlie, overspread, pelt, putty, serve, shell, sow, spread, to collect, to cover, top, wrap). (various references)

Romanian

umple (choke, clog, comprise, contain, cram, crowd, farce, fill, fill up, flood, heap, impregnate, inflate, inform, intersperse, Lade, pack, replenish, stain, stock, stop, store, stuff, supply), acoperi (adorn, bedeck, cap, cloak, conceal, cover, deck, defilade, defray, disguise, Harbor, harbour, hide, hood, mantle, obfuscate, overgrow, overlap, overlay, overspread, paint, pepper, protect, roof, sheathe, shelter, sow, span, straw, top, varnish, veil), îneca (choke, deluge, drown, float, flood, flush, inundate, overflow, smother, steep, stifle, suffocate, swamp). (various references)

Russian 

заливать (flood, overflow, overwhelm, swamp, whelm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obliti (overspread, soak). (various references)

Spanish

difundirse por (pervade), cubrir (bank, blanket, ceilings, cloak, coat, cover, do, drape, fence, make up, mantas, mantle, Mount, overlay, overspread, plaster, screen, serve, sheet, strew, travel, walk), bañar (bath, bathe, dip, imbrue, wash). (various references)

Swedish

övergjuta. (various references)

Thai

ทำให้แผ่กระจาย. (various references)

Turkish

saklamak (blind, Bury, cloak, conceal, disguise, enshrine, harvest, hide, hold back, keep back, keep smth. quiet, keep smth. under wraps, keep snug, lay down, obscure, plant, put by, put out of sight, screen, secrete, shelter, stash, stash away, stow away, tuck away), kaplamak (back, bestrew, canopy, carpet, case, clothe, coat, cover, encrust, envelop, face, fair, film, film over, fleece, hang, incrust, infest, line, overgrow, overlap, overspread, overwhelm, plate, recap, revet, sheathe, sheet, shield, smother in, smother with, take, thread, upholster, veneer, wreathe), bürümek (clothe, cover up, infest, wrap), üzerine yayılmak. (various references)

Ukrainian

наповнювати (charge, cram, fill, fill in, fill up, resound, sprinkle), заливати (bathe, fill in, overflow, overwhelm, steep, swamp, wash, wash down), покривати (buck, ceil, clothe, coat, cope, cover, cover with, dab, lay over, mantle, strew). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "suffuse": suffused, suffuses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Suffuse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subfuse, suffus, surfuse. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: fuses.

-3 letters: effs, fess, feus, fuse, fuss, sues, uses.

-4 letters: eff, efs, ess, feu, sue, use.

-5 letters: ef, es, us.

+1 letter: suffused, suffuses.

+2 letters: suffusive.

+5 letters: fruitfulness.