| 单词 | suffuse |
| 释义 | suffuse (once / 2255 pages) v The verb suffuse means to spread and fill a space, like the way the smell of wildflowers might suffuse a meadow. Suffuse is a synonym for steep. Like tea whose flavor grows stronger the more it steeps, when you suffuse something it spreads throughout until an area is full, or even overly full. Another synonym, infuse, looks a lot like suffuse. Both words come from the Latin word fundere, which means "to pour." WORD FAMILYsuffuse: suffused, suffuses, suffusing, suffusion, suffusive+/suffusion: suffusions USAGE EXAMPLESThe air is suddenly suffused with balsam, the smell of melancholy. Los Angeles Times(Dec 14, 2016) Suffused with wry humor, vulnerability and radiant warmth, Huppert’s performance captures that delicate period in life during which resignation morphs into graceful, even grateful, acceptance. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) World War II shaped and suffused their lives as surely and as thoroughly as the conflict shaped and suffused the nation’s. Time(Dec 07, 2016) 1v cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across The sky was suffused with a warm pink color Syn|Hyper perfuse flush cause to flow or flood with or as if with water 2v to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light His whole frame suffused with a cold dew Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature |
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