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US
/səfˈjuz/
]
[ UK /sʌfjˈuːz/ ]
[ UK /sʌfjˈuːz/ ]
VERB
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to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light
His whole frame suffused with a cold dew -
cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
The sky was suffused with a warm pink color
How To Use suffuse In A Sentence
- Nutty sweetbreads, bitter greens, gently brash shallots, and velvety chanterelles suffuse farfalle in well-oiled repertory.
- A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
- Yet you are never far from reminders of the sadness and regret that suffuses the mind of the composer.
- Pastor Rick Warren's best-selling "The Purpose Driven Life" is suffused with predestinarian themes, repackaged as a gentler divine providence. Highway To Heaven
- The room was suffused with a soft golden light.
- The exterior glass walls of this sculpture hall are coated with tiny white ceramic dots (called frits) that screen city views and suffuse a supernal glow heightened by filtered daylight that streams down from deeply inset skylights ” an effect equal to the lighting of Piano at his best ” made possible when Tschumi rotated the story above this middle level of the museum. Grading the New Acropolis
- Sweet and spicy flavors, including date, pomegranate, coriander, and cumin, suffuse the foods spread out on a nearby buffet.
- An immediate sense of fullness suffused her, as if she had been waiting for just this thing to feel complete.
- 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.
- The Republican's 48-page "Pledge to America" is suffused with evocative, "feel-good" imagery designed to console and revivify America's frustrated and forlorn population. Mark Cassello: The Road to a New Progressive Narrative, Part Two: The Right's Winning Non-Rational Propaganda