SUFFUSED Synonyms: 49 Similar and Opposite Words

suffused

verb

past tense of suffuse

as in imbued

to cause (as a person) to become filled or saturated with a certain quality or principle she was suffused with an overwhelming feeling of liberation as her horse broke into a gallop

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as in penetrated

to spread throughout a living room suffused with warm sunlight

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Recent Examples of suffused Galaxies contain hundreds of millions of stars and are suffused in sparse, ambient clouds of gas and dust as well. —

Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 19 Mar. 2026 Ever since, lines from the movies haveshaped our hopes and dreams and aspirations and have suffused our everyday conversations. —

Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2026 For months, an uncanny sense of calm suffused the forest. —

Robert Moor, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 The whole show is suffused in bright, warm sunlight. —

John Hopewell, Variety, 25 Feb. 2026 Panasiuk lived in Bucha, and the book is suffused with the experience of occupation, massacre, and return. —

Alex Averbuch, Literary Hub, 24 Feb. 2026 Reid seemed to truly believe, despite the partisanship that suffused the column, that the Senate had been badly damaged. —

Jon Ralston, The Atlantic, 18 Jan. 2026 Slow-attack tones emerge and are subsumed back within the haze, like single strands of a spiderweb zooming in and out of focus; the uppermost reaches are suffused in a delicate scrim of what sounds like electronic crickets. —

Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 14 Jan. 2026 Its pages are suffused with love for her mother and for the myriad anonymous Chinese sources and academics who help Chang in researching her historical projects — and suffered blowback as a result. —

Emily Feng, NPR, 13 Jan. 2026

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Each rhythmic stop-and-start, each peel of feedback is imbued with the sense that the band might fully crumble into noise and dissonance.

— Colin Joyce, Pitchfork, 18 Mar. 2026
Liquid fuels imbued rockets with a more powerful thrust and, thanks to their variable flow, also offered more control—precisely what would be needed for any serious attempt at spaceflight.

— Lee Billings, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2026