Crossword clues for suffuse
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Suffuse \Suf*fuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Suffused; p. pr. & vb. n. Suffusing.] [L. suffusus, p. p. of suffundere to overspread; sub under + fundere to pour. See Fuse to melt.] To overspread, as with a fluid or tincture; to fill or cover, as with something fluid; as, eyes suffused with tears; cheeks suffused with blushes.
When purple light shall next suffuse the skies.
--Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Latin suffusus, past participle of suffundere "overspread, pour beneath, pour upon" (see suffusion). Related: Suffused; suffusing.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to perfuse. 2 (context transitive figuratively English) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
WordNet
v. cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across; "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color" [syn: perfuse]
to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light; "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew"
Usage examples of "suffuse".
The parquet floor, the great wall panels, the allegorical ceiling dangling its chandeliers: all must be erected and connected, and suffusing and refracting golden light.
Laurent had pushed back the persiennes, and a magical panorama had sprung into view: the whole range of the mountains behind Nice, their snow-caps suffused with a heavenly rose colour by the setting sun.
Quartz and rock crystal, suffused with Plattnerite, glimmered about the framework, giving the whole a sense of unreality and skewness.
Table, a dark cube rising out of darker stone and suffused with the purpled life-energy stolen from who knew where.
Her warm presence suffused his sensorium, bringing a sure, steady calm.
To Averan it seemed that the light was sourceless, as if it suffused from another, finer world.
Only the low-power glow remained, suffusing everything with a blue, sourceless light.
Eckhof recited the glowing and innocent confession of love made by Hippolytus, a burning blush suffused the cheek of the young student, and his eyes were filled with tears.
She had turned away, but Marietta saw that her throat was suffused with a soft flush.
And then her fancy pictured her new home and all its delights, till her eyes were suffused with tender feeling, as her imagination sketched a variety of scenes--the pleasant labours of cultivation, the rides, the hunting, the boating, all common-place occurrences, which, attended on by love, were exalted into a perpetual gorgeous procession of beatified hours.
Another minute, and I might be suffused with heat, sweating and flushed.
She blinked, the look of absolute amazement that suffused her features more eloquent than any spoken denial could have been.
Likewise on the darkly suffused flesh of his genitals in their morning state, standing stiff against his belly and gone the deep, soft color one would find in the heart of a shadowed rose.
His thin face was suddenly suffused with joy, and he flung his arms around Eppie and kissed her.
He stopped abruptly, just before taking her into his arms, but his face suffused with joy.