Definitions for: Suffuse


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



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

When purple light shall next suffuse the skies. --Pope.

Synonyms: perfuse

See Also: change, flush

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