Definitions for suffuse

suffuse suf·fuse

Spelling: [suh-fyooz]
IPA: /səˈfyuz/

Suffuse is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in suffuse (effssuu).

Definitions for suffuse

verb (used with object)

  1. to overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.

Origin of suffuse

First recorded in 1580-90, suffuse is from the Latin word suffūsus (past participle of suffundere). See suf-, fuse2

Examples for suffuse

Nothing can surpass the delicate tints of rose-color, silver gray, gold and purple which suffuse these summits in early morning.

The knowledge and performance of evil should suffuse one's daily life.

What more could be needed to suffuse the world with the deepest meaning and beauty?

They are not separately heard by the ear; they blend with the fundamental note and suffuse it, and alter it.

It seemed that she, too, at that moment felt some of the glow that the fall of the Alamo was to suffuse through Texas.

From without the imagination can appreciate that glow of pale gold which must there suffuse all things.

You can suffuse the whole theme with a human spirit, for everything has a human significance if only you will find it.

Their attachment had been but physical; their affection only make-believe—to colour fact, and suffuse reality with romance.

The color returned to her cheeks, the delicious languor began to suffuse her eyes again.

His veins were beating as though they would burst the vessels in his temples, and suffuse his face with blood.

Word Value for suffuse
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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