Synonyms of suffusing

suffusing

verb

present participle of suffuse

1

as in infusing

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

Synonyms & Similar Words

• infusing
• imbuing
• filling
• investing
• inculcating
• flooding
• inoculating
• steeping
• charging
• enlivening
• pervading
• invigorating
• permeating
• animating
• planting
• enduing
• overwhelming
• drowning
• saturating
• leavening
• ingraining
• instilling
• submerging
• impregnating
• inundating
• implanting
• deluging

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• depriving
• stripping
• emptying
• taking (away)
• clearing
• removing
• eliminating
• divesting

2

as in penetrating

to spread throughout

a living room suffused with warm sunlight

Synonyms & Similar Words

• penetrating
• pervading
• permeating
• interpenetrating
• flooding
• riddling
• percolating (into)
• saturating
• transfusing
• infusing
• passing (into)
• impregnating
• filling (up)
• imbuing
• diffusing (through)
• soaking
• drenching
• steeping
• glutting

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of suffusing

The threat of shattered glass if the bottle breaks, the subsequent odor suffusing all the items in your carryon, liquids seeping dangerously close to electronics—none of it sounds like a good idea. — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 1 Sep. 2026

But Pete took the idea one step further, taking the organization’s iconic symbol — the star — and suffusing it with a deeper meaning. — Rustin Dodd, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Cowin has brought the tradition up to date beginning in the late 1970s by suffusing her work with the look and feel of cinema and television (close-ups, storyboard-style progression), and the centering of women’s experience in the narrative. — Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Aug. 2026

After suffusing some of this lunar simulant with helium-3, Interlune will use those samples to test its extraction methods. — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 14 May 2026

And, yes, suffusing it all is Pelicot’s interesting unreliability—to herself above all. — Literary Hub, 14 May 2026

Warnings, laments, and odes to renewal were expressed pictorially as dying days under bleeding heavens, belching volcanoes, proud icebergs, lavish rainbows amid spangling, mist-suffusing sunlight and dawns of peace and hope. — Sebastian Smee, New Yorker, 4 May 2026

Your energetic 5th house hosts the meeting of Mercury and Pluto, suffusing your hobbies with cosmic delight. — Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026