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

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