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Suffuse

verb

(past & past part. suffused; pres. part. suffusing)

Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across. Synonym: perfuse.

To become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light.

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"Suffuse" Quotes from Famous Books

... making for their prevention, and for the preservation of the good order and dignity of Alma Mater. The deep, the poignant, the overwhelming mortification, which upon each such failure of his praise worthy endeavors, would suffuse every lineament of his countenance, left not the slightest room for doubt of his sincerity in the bosoms of even his most skeptical companions. The adroitness, too, was no less worthy of observation by which he contrived to shift ...

— The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 4 (of 5) of the Raven Edition • Edgar Allan Poe

... minutes afterwards from again speaking. On each occasion Aveline looked at me with an inquiring glance, wondering what had thus tied my tongue. Perhaps she suspected the truth, when at length, growing bolder, I approached nearer and nearer the subject, for I saw, or fancied I saw, a blush suffuse her countenance. This gave me yet further boldness, and summoning all my resolution, I was on the point of telling her the wishes of my heart, when a cry from Madam Clough made us hurry forward ...

— The Golden Grasshopper - A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham • W.H.G. Kingston

Words linked to "Suffuse" : flush, suffusion, suffusive, change