suffuse
[verb]
Synonyms: infuse, imbue, ingrain, inoculate, invest, leaven, steep

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Related Words: interject, interpose, introduce

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suf‧fuse /səˈfjuːz/ verb [transitive] literary
[Date: 1500-1600; Language: Latin; Origin: past participle of suffundere 'to pour beneath, suffuse', from sub- ( ⇒ sub-) + fundere 'to pour']

1. if warmth, colour, liquid etc suffuses something or someone, it covers or spreads through them:
The light of the setting sun suffused the clouds.
Hot colour suffused her cheeks.

2. be suffused with something if someone is suffused with a feeling, they are full of that feeling:
She was suffused with happiness.

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