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語源

From Latin suffundō.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, 米国発音) IPA: /səˈfjuːz/
• 韻: -uːz

動詞

suffuse (third-person singular simple present suffuses, present participle suffusing, simple past and past participle suffused)

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

   The entire room was suffused with a golden light.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.

   The warmth suffused his cold fingers.

   • 1983, Robert Ferro, The Family of Max Desir, page 87:

     Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look.

   • 2019 March 28, David Sims, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum”, in The Atlantic‎:

     His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie.

3. (transitive) To pour underneath.

使用する際の注意点

• The verb is often used in the passive voice.

同意語

• perfuse

派生語

関連する語

• infuse

形容詞

suffuse (comparative more suffuse, superlative most suffuse)

1. Suffused; diffuse.
   • 1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243:

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

   • 2014, Rita Petrini, Through the Curtain of Time and Space, →ISBN:

     Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum.