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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: suffuse)
WordNet
adj. being spread through with or as with color or light or liquid
Usage examples of "suffused".
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.
And she, who had suffered from the cold all of her life, was suffused with that warmth and with a peacefulness that was perfection itself.
Given the imperative for war that now suffused even the intelligentsia of the Hegemony, such a comment was tantamount to treason.
She grinned in the darkness, which was gradually being suffused by a gentle, oven-like light coming from the superheated atmosphere trapped behind the forcefield.
Her body suffused with heat as his mouth claimed hers and they clung together in rediscovery.
Eager faces surrounded her, all suffused with a jubilance she did not share.
Suddenly an intense pleasure suffused every part of her and she cried out in shock and pleasure.
Soul, get thee to the heart Of yonder tuberose: hide thee there -- There breathe the meditations of thine art Suffused with prayer.