Suffuse Meaning
/səˈfjuːz/Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
verbTo spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
Sentence Examples
The warm and red light began to suffuse the entire room.
To suffuse means to spread over or through in a gradual way.
A soft pink glow began to suffuse the morning sky.
CEFR Practice Quiz
After hearing the good news, a warm glow began to ____ her entire face.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The morning light began to ____ the entire room with a warm and golden glow as the sun rose today.
Word Origin & History
From Latin suffundō.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look."
— 1983, Robert Ferro, The Family of Max Desir, page 87:
"His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie."
— 2019 March 28, David Sims, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum”, in The Atlantic:
"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:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
After hearing the good news, a warm glow began to ____ her entire face.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The morning light began to ____ the entire room with a warm and golden glow as the sun rose today.