suffuse

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across

   The sky was suffused with a warm pink color

2. 2
   verb

   to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light

   The soft lawn suffused with a cold dew that belied the warm day ahead.

3. 3
   verb

   To spread through or over (something), especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.

   The entire room was suffused with a golden light.

4. 4
   verb

   To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.

   The warmth suffused his cold fingers.

5. 5
   adj

   Suffused; diffuse.

   This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.

6. 6
   verb

   To pour underneath.

Etymology

From Latin suffundō.