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Definition of suffuse in English:

suffuse

verb səˈfjuːzsəˈfjuz
[with object]
  • Gradually spread through or over.

    逐渐扩散;布满,充满

    her cheeks were suffused with colour

    她双颊通红。

    the first half of the poem is suffused with idealism

    诗的前半部分充满了理想主义。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
    • And Jenkins's achievements - and failure to grasp the supreme power prize - pervade his historical writing and suffuse it with insight.
    • Appalled at his deliberate misunderstanding of her offer to buy him coffee, Serena felt outraged heat suffuse her cheeks.
    • Sweet and spicy flavors, including date, pomegranate, coriander, and cumin, suffuse the foods spread out on a nearby buffet.
    • Chromatherapy is available in eight different colour sequences that suffuse the water with emotionally soothing light.
    • Where a dark grey curtain had hidden the hills from sight, a rosy glow gradually deepened and suffused every mountain top in sight.
    • With its allusions to dusky rivers, soul, blood, the setting sun, and sleep, the poem is fairly suffused with images of death.
    • Yet despite the sinister ideological forces at work, an uncanny tenderness suffuses this poem.
    • ‘The spirit of Morecambe and Wise gradually suffuses the show, and lots of Morecambe and Wise gags are lifted verbatim,’ says Clive.
    • Zuka refashions the timeless subject into a contemporary painter's dream of color and movement suffused with a satirist's wit.
    • The colored light falls on the painter's large areas of pure local hue and fragments them; it steals across his blindingly harsh white highlights and suffuses them with saturated and pastel hues.
    • In most shots, virtually the entire screen is suffused with a red wash, which dominates and assimilates virtually every other colour but black.
    • Amy Sillman's recent show of large oils and jewel-like gouaches was suffused with the color, light and atmosphere of Quattrocento Italy.
    • Working in low light without a flash demanded relatively long exposures, and so color suffuses these images.
    • The whole plant is suffused with colour and with a gravitas that few other plants can match.
    • The more the sun wanes the more lustrous become the colours of the encroaching night until the entire picture is suffused first with magenta and finally saturated in deep blue.
    • It is thrilling to see how this desire for deeper spirituality, redemption and grace suffuse the poem even as it ironically ends with the beggar's spirited demands.
    • A member of the carotenoid family, lycopene suffuses fruits with color and offers several healthful properties, particularly for men.
    • But in fact, Shelley was an optimist who wrote poems suffused with faith in human progress.
    • Drawing viewers into the first gallery, the syncopated lines of electric-blue text ran up the front and back of each spike, suffusing the room with color.
    Synonyms
    permeate, spread over, spread throughout, cover, bathe, pervade, wash, saturate, imbue, fill, load, charge, impregnate, inform, steep, colour
    literary mantle

Derivatives

  • suffusion

  • noun səˈfjuːʒ(ə)nsəˈfjuʒ(ə)n
    • The tall spire of the Town Hall and its contrasting colours of azure and white stood majestically between a glorious suffusion of greenery.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Blushing is a matter of the suffusion of blood through the skin of the face for goodness sake - there's a perfectly good explanation of what the process of blushing is - but why is he blushing?
      • The juvenal plumage is browner and much more uniform below, lacking the strong yellowish suffusion and streaked appearance below of juvenal-plumaged B. montis.
      • Working with light hues, the artist generates the impression of his motifs melting into a suffusion of light and shade on the computer generated prints.
      • It's all here: the suffusion of the scientific with the erotic, the fascination for catastrophe and mutation, the Burroughsian black humour, provocative notions about ‘creative cancer’ and ‘omnisexuality.’

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin suffus- 'poured into', from sub- 'below, from below' + fundere 'pour'.

Rhymes

abuse, accuse, adieux, amuse, bemuse, billets-doux, blues, booze, bruise, choose, Clews, confuse, contuse, cruise, cruse, Cruz, diffuse, do's, Druze, effuse, enthuse, excuse, fuse (US fuze), Hughes, incuse, interfuse, lose, Mahfouz, mews, misuse, muse, news, ooze, Ouse, perfuse, peruse, rhythm-and-blues, ruse, schmooze, snooze, Toulouse, transfuse, trews, use, Vaduz, Veracruz, who's, whose, youse

Definition of suffuse in US English:

suffuse

verbsəˈfjuzsəˈfyo͞oz
[with object]
  • Gradually spread through or over.

    逐渐扩散;布满,充满

    her cheeks were suffused with color

    她双颊通红。

    the first half of the poem is suffused with idealism

    诗的前半部分充满了理想主义。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
    • Drawing viewers into the first gallery, the syncopated lines of electric-blue text ran up the front and back of each spike, suffusing the room with color.
    • Where a dark grey curtain had hidden the hills from sight, a rosy glow gradually deepened and suffused every mountain top in sight.
    • In most shots, virtually the entire screen is suffused with a red wash, which dominates and assimilates virtually every other colour but black.
    • With its allusions to dusky rivers, soul, blood, the setting sun, and sleep, the poem is fairly suffused with images of death.
    • A member of the carotenoid family, lycopene suffuses fruits with color and offers several healthful properties, particularly for men.
    • Amy Sillman's recent show of large oils and jewel-like gouaches was suffused with the color, light and atmosphere of Quattrocento Italy.
    • Yet despite the sinister ideological forces at work, an uncanny tenderness suffuses this poem.
    • It is thrilling to see how this desire for deeper spirituality, redemption and grace suffuse the poem even as it ironically ends with the beggar's spirited demands.
    • But in fact, Shelley was an optimist who wrote poems suffused with faith in human progress.
    • Working in low light without a flash demanded relatively long exposures, and so color suffuses these images.
    • ‘The spirit of Morecambe and Wise gradually suffuses the show, and lots of Morecambe and Wise gags are lifted verbatim,’ says Clive.
    • Zuka refashions the timeless subject into a contemporary painter's dream of color and movement suffused with a satirist's wit.
    • The more the sun wanes the more lustrous become the colours of the encroaching night until the entire picture is suffused first with magenta and finally saturated in deep blue.
    • Sweet and spicy flavors, including date, pomegranate, coriander, and cumin, suffuse the foods spread out on a nearby buffet.
    • The colored light falls on the painter's large areas of pure local hue and fragments them; it steals across his blindingly harsh white highlights and suffuses them with saturated and pastel hues.
    • Appalled at his deliberate misunderstanding of her offer to buy him coffee, Serena felt outraged heat suffuse her cheeks.
    • And Jenkins's achievements - and failure to grasp the supreme power prize - pervade his historical writing and suffuse it with insight.
    • Chromatherapy is available in eight different colour sequences that suffuse the water with emotionally soothing light.
    • The whole plant is suffused with colour and with a gravitas that few other plants can match.
    Synonyms
    permeate, spread over, spread throughout, cover, bathe, pervade, wash, saturate, imbue, fill, load, charge, impregnate, inform, steep, colour

Origin

Late 16th century: from Latin suffus- ‘poured into’, from sub- ‘below, from below’ + fundere ‘pour’.

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