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say it: suh-FYOOZ
suffuse is a verb meaning "cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across". It is pronounced /səˈfjuz/ — suh-FYOOZ. It carries 2 recorded senses.
to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light
“His whole frame suffused with a cold dew”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for suffuse come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.