1. VERB △If something, especially a colour or feeling, suffuses a person or thing, it gradually spreads over or through them.[ LITERARY ]
- A dull red flush suffused Selby's face.
2. VERB △If something such as a book, film, or piece of music is suffused with a quality, it is full of that quality.[ FORMAL ]
- This book is suffused with Shaw's characteristic wry Irish humour.
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Synonyms: charge, imbue, impregnate, permeate, pervade, saturate, suffuse
These verbs mean to cause to be filled with a particular mood or tone:
- an atmosphere charged with excitement;
- poetry imbued with lyricism;
- a spirit impregnated with lofty ideals;
- optimism that permeates a group;
- letters pervaded with gloom;
- a play saturated with imagination;
- a heart suffused with love.
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