suffuse


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Synonyms for suffuse

spread through or over

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Synonyms for suffuse

to cause to be filled, as with a particular mood or tone

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Synonyms for suffuse

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

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

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This shea butter and grapefruit mask, melts over the hair to suffuse it with strength and moisture.
Though the glow of hot, newborn stars would suffuse a young galaxy with blue light, the Honolulu-based team figured that some of the galaxies in their survey might appear red.
Both alternate lead pairs, Veronica Lynn with Ben Huys and Christina Fagundes with Philip Neal, were beginning to suffuse passion into movement for the torso and back so that body pulses and arched spans no longer looked like mere wiggles and bends.
As a result, Type I supernovas -- which suffuse the interstellar medium with iron-rich gas -- dictated the chemical composition of new stars, the researchers report.
[2] Central to the Nordic 'mood painting' is an attempt to bring viewers into startling contact with evocative aspects of light, which suffuse the picture surface and are often its very subject.
The dene "vignette" in particular manages to suffuse the mundane mechanics of contemporary video surveillance with the nostalgic glow of traditional landscape painting in a manner that is both enthralling and gently thought provoking.
"The light would be through everything and energy through everything," Janet Fish declared in 1988, and this is indeed what we find in her wondrous works: Light suffuses each of the nineteen still fifes that were on view in this exhibition, all made over the ten-year period between 1968 and 1978, which proved to be formative for the artist.
A spirit of empathy suffuses "Southside With You," a soulful and disarmingly romantic snapshot of the fateful first date of a young Barack Obama (Parker Sawyers) and Michelle Robinson (Tika Sumpter) on a summer day in 1989 Chicago, long before either guessed they'd someday be president and first lady of the United States.