suffusing
present participle ofsuffuse
suffuse
verb[Toften passive]
literaryuk/səˈfjuːz/us/səˈfjuːz/tospreadthrough or over somethingcompletely:
Hisvoicewaslowand suffusedwithpassion.
Filling and completing
- backfill
- box ticking
- brick
- brick upsomething
- brim
- fill
- jam
- overcrowd
- overrun
- pack
- packsomething/somewhereout
- permeate
- pervade
- round
- stuffing
- suffuse
- supersaturated
- takesomethingup
- tank
- tank up
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Spreading and scattering
Examplesofsuffusing
suffusing
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
Suffusingall this there is the vast increase in our knowledge of how we learn in general through advances in cognitive neuroscience and neuropsychology.
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Suffusingthe constituency entries is a lively sense of the popular excitement and provincial partisanship generated by frequent elections.
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Suffusingthe whole of the report is the notion that young people living in children's homes need champions.
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There is a distinct air of successsuffusingthe entire development.
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The next task—the bread and butter task—of taking the forensic science service much more seriously, funding it properly andsuffusingit with police services is a priority.
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They were discovered after scientists filtered out the fog of background gamma-rayssuffusingthe sky.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.During baking, the fats in the pepperoni (which are hard at room temperature) melt, resulting in a spicy oilsuffusinginto the bread.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Melancholy, shyness and embarrassment dominate the novel,suffusingeven those scenes involving sudden violence with a sense of bemused, slightly detached sadness.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The summit focuses purely on spreading technical knowledge andsuffusingenthusiasm in minds to work for the greater good of man.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He has achieved recognition forsuffusinghis novels with satire.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All that appears is a very refined awarenesssuffusingeverything throughout the entire universe.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Her writing is filled with rich descriptions and actors whose actions bear consequences for both their lives and relationships,suffusingher series with a sense of loss and regret.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He had a vision ofsuffusingall higher education, including horticulture, with a spirit of public work and integrating expert knowledge into a broader context of democratic community action.
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- misguided
- misguided attempt
- misguidedly
- misguided policy
- mishandle
- mishandled
- mishandling
- mishap
- mishear
- mishit
- mishmash
- misidentification
- misidentify
- misinform
- misinformation
- misinformed
- misinforming
- misinterpret
- misinterpretation
- misinterpreted
- misinterpreting
- misjudge
- misjudged
- misjudging
- misjudgment