Usually means: Spread through or over something.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. suffuse: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. suffuse: Merriam-Webster
  3. suffuse: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. suffuse: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. suffuse: Collins English Dictionary
  6. suffuse: Vocabulary.com
  7. suffuse: Wordnik
  8. suffuse: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. suffuse: Wiktionary
  10. suffuse: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. suffuse: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. suffuse: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. suffuse: Dictionary.com
  14. Suffuse: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. suffuse: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. suffuse: Rhymezone
  17. Suffuse: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. suffuse: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. suffuse: FreeDictionary.org
  20. suffuse: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. suffuse: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suffuse: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suffuse: Legal dictionary

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. suffuse: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. suffuse: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suffuse: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. suffuse: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (suffuse)

▸ verb:  (transitive) To spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
▸ verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To pour underneath.
▸ adjective:  Suffused; diffuse.

Similar:
perfuse, bathe, overflush, superperfuse, saturate, infuse, bespread, affuse, impregnate, flow, more...

Opposite:
drain, empty, deplete, evacuate, clear

Colors:
    blush,     rose,     coral,     amber,     lavender, more...

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Similar:
perfuse, bathe, overflush, superperfuse, saturate, infuse, bespread, affuse, impregnate, flow, more...

Opposite:
drain, empty, deplete, evacuate, clear

Colors:
    blush,     rose,     coral,     amber,     lavender, more...



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