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Wordnet 3.0

VERB (2)

1. cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across;
- Example: "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color"
[syn: suffuse, perfuse]

2. to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light;
- Example: "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew"



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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.
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         When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. --Pope.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

suffuse
    v 1: cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across;
         "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color" [syn:
         suffuse, perfuse]
    2: to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of
       light; "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew"