suffuse
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
The sky was suffused with a warm pink color
Types & categories
- flush hypernym
Related & opposite
- permeation derivation
- suffusive derivation
Sense 2 verb
to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light
His whole frame suffused with a cold dew
Types & categories
- change hypernym
Related & opposite
- permeation derivation
- suffusive derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | permeation |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | suffusive |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | flush |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | permeation |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | suffusive |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | change |