| 单词 | suffusion |
| 释义 | suffusion (once / 28412 pages) n Suffusion is when something slowly spreads throughout something else, like a feeling or a color. The suffusion of red into your friend's cheeks will show you that she's embarrassed, for example. The noun suffusion is useful for talking about the gradual saturating of some substance or shade. You can watch the suffusion of tea from a tea bag into hot water, or sense the suffusion of excitement into a young boy on the day before his birthday. It's common to describe color with the word suffusion too, like the suffusion of pink into the evening sky at sunset. The Latin root is suffusionem, which means "a pouring over." WORD FAMILYsuffusion: suffusions+/suffuse: suffused, suffuses, suffusing, suffusion, suffusive USAGE EXAMPLESTo me, this suffusion of language and light is like a chorus, because the scrolling words must harmonize with light, or push up against it. The New Yorker(Apr 15, 2016) Yet Ruch also acknowledged that his group is up against a suffusion of technology that shows no signs of abating. Seattle Times(Nov 03, 2014) Rather than precise renderings, they’re like suffusions of color extracted from sea and sunrise: luminous layers and washes that beguile the eye. Seattle Times(Jan 24, 2014) n the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance Syn|Hypo|Hyper permeation, pervasion ammonification impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia carbonationsaturation with carbon dioxide (as soda water) impregnation, saturationthe process of totally saturating something with a substance diffusion (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration |
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