suffuse

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verb

1. cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across (Freq. 3)
- The sky was suffused with a warm pink color
• Syn:
perfuse
• Derivationally related forms:
suffusive, suffusion
• Hypernyms:
flush
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s something PP
- They suffuse the cloth with water and alcohol
- Water and alcohol suffuse the cloth
2. to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light
- His whole frame suffused with a cold dew
• Derivationally related forms:
suffusive, suffusion
• Hypernyms:
change
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Something is ----ing PP