suffuse

CEFRC2

/səˈfjuːz/

verb · adjective

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Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

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To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.

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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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From Latin suffundō.