suffuse
/səˈfjuːz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.46 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The entire room was suffused with a golden light."
- "The warmth suffused his cold fingers."
- "Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look."
- "His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie."
- "This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent."
- "Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum."
Etymology
From Latin suffundō.
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: suffundō
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /səˈfjuːz/
- British English: /səˈfjuːz/
Usage
Inflected Forms
suffuses (present, singular)
suffusing (participle, present)
suffused (participle, past)
suffused (past)
more suffuse (comparative)
most suffuse (superlative)