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    suffuse

    suffuse - Dictionary definition and meaning for word suffuse

    Definition
    (verb) cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
    Synonyms : perfuse
    Example Sentence
    • The sky was suffused with a warm pink color
    Definition
    (verb) to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light
    Example Sentence
    • His whole frame suffused with a cold dew
   Mnemonics (Memory Aids) for suffuse

akin to other fuses: diffuse, effuse - all of which mean flow or spread.

SUFFUSE=SUFficient+difFUSE. So, Suffuse is to Diffuse Sufficiently, that is, spread through, over or across

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