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Word of the Day for Monday, September 15, 2008 suffuse \suh-FYOOZ\, transitive verb: To spread through or over in the manner of fluid or light; to flush. She gave me a long slow look, as if she were deciding something, and then she allowed herself to blush, the color suffusing her throat in a delicious mottle of pink and white. -- T. Coraghessan Boyle, T. C. Boyle Stories Have you ever felt happiness suffuse all the cells in your body and a smile light up your face? -- Sarabjit Singh, "Queen of the Hills", India Currents, November 30, 1996 Like an angel or an earthquake, it isn't there and then it is; it doesn't steal over us and suffuse us with a festive spirit like the gradual effects of alcohol or good deeds. -- Barbara Peters Smith, "Gladness descends on her home", Sarasota Herald Tribune, December 27, 2003 Suffuse comes from the past participle of Latin suffundere, "to overspread; to suffuse," from sub-, "under" + fundere, "to pour." Dictionary.com Entry and Pronunciation for suffuse Yesterday's Word - Previous Words - Help
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