Definition of "suffuse" []

• To spread through or over, as with liquid, color, or light: "The sky above the roof is suffused with deep colors” ( Eugene O'Neill). See Synonyms at charge. (verb-transitive)

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• "But there are times when he seems unable to: when his emotional reactions get the better of him, and suffuse his public rhetoric on foreign affairs and infuse his specific foreign policies."
• "Set to run for six hours, as per his own solstice tradition, the performance will incorporate projections of "The Movement of People Working," an attentive series of documentary films that Mr. Niblock started making in the '70s, as well as music that stands to swell and suffuse the room."
• "Spock allowed it to sweep over and through him, to buffet and suffuse him with impatience, frustration, and a determination to kill."