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Grammar : Verb
Spell : suh-fyooz
Phonetic Transcription : səˈfyuz

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Origin :
  • 1580s, from Latin suffusus, past participle of suffundere (see suffusion). Related: Suffused; suffusing.
  • verb spread out
Example sentences :
  • The knowledge and performance of evil should suffuse one's daily life.
  • Extract from : « The Status Civilization » by Robert Sheckley
  • What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?
  • Extract from : « The Sense of Beauty » by George Santayana
  • They are not separately heard by the ear; they blend with the fundamental note and suffuse it, and alter it.
  • Extract from : « Creative Intelligence » by John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. Kallen
  • His veins were beating as though they would burst the vessels in his temples, and suffuse his face with blood.
  • Extract from : « In the Roar of the Sea » by Sabine Baring-Gould
  • It seemed that she, too, at that moment felt some of the glow that the fall of the Alamo was to suffuse through Texas.
  • Extract from : « The Texan Scouts » by Joseph A. Altsheler
  • From without the imagination can appreciate that glow of pale gold which must there suffuse all things.
  • Extract from : « Old Plymouth Trails » by Winthrop Packard
  • The color returned to her cheeks, the delicious languor began to suffuse her eyes again.
  • Extract from : « Armadale » by Wilkie Collins
  • You can suffuse the whole theme with a human spirit, for everything has a human significance if only you will find it.
  • Extract from : « Expository Writing » by Mervin James Curl
  • Their attachment had been but physical; their affection only make-believe—to colour fact, and suffuse reality with romance.
  • Extract from : « Why we should read » by S. P. B. Mais
  • Nothing can surpass the delicate tints of rose-color, silver gray, gold and purple which suffuse these summits in early morning.
  • Extract from : « Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII. No. 30. September, 1873 » by Various

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