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- pronunciation:
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fyuz
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
suffuses, suffusing, suffused |
| definition: |
of a color, liquid, or the like, to spread throughout or across the surface of.
A blush suffused her cheeks.- synonyms:
- imbue, permeate, transfuse
- similar words:
- bathe, charge, color, fill, infiltrate, infuse, overspread, pervade, saturate, steep
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| related words: |
color, fill, flush, overrun, penetrate, permeate, pervade, saturate |
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| derivations: |
suffusive (adj.), suffusedly (adv.), suffusion (n.) |
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