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

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2
as in penetrating
to spread throughout a living room suffused with warm sunlight

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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for suffusing
  1. infusing
  2. penetrating
  3. imbuing
  4. pervading
  5. filling
  6. permeating
  7. investing
  8. flooding
Verb
  • But also tell me about infusing the character with some of your sense of humor and comedic timing.
    — Glenn Garner, Deadline, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Those perfectly pungent elements rip through the savory pastrami perfectly, infusing every bite with a slightly prickly tang.
    — Rachel Bernhard, jsonline.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of infusing
Verb
  • From the lunar surface, GIMLI will gather data using ground-penetrating radar, seismic sensors and a gravimeter to better understand what's really happening underneath the surface.
    — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • Related Articles Researchers subsequently examined aerial photographs of the area and began conducting noninvasive magnetic and ground-penetrating radar surveys.
    — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 29 Sep. 2026
Definition of penetrating
Verb
  • People Are Manipulated, Not Just Systems Phishing and social engineering attacks are launched against potential victims and work by imbuing fear, urgency, greed and curiosity.
    — Steve Durbin, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
  • The production’s director, José Luis Valenzuela, said imbuing the ancient play with the political tones of current times helped highlight the eternal primacy of the values present in the text without explicitly talking about Latino communities.
    — Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of imbuing
Verb
  • That’s a pretty evocative setting for a film, with the perpetual drone and roar of fighter jets overhead and an air of constricting menace pervading what should otherwise be placidly idle summer hours.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The pervading myth goes that Henry was knowingly tricked into marrying Anne of Cleves by her falsely beguiling thirst trap of a portrait.
    — Eva Wolchover, Vanity Fair, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of pervading
Verb
  • The show and encore, which take up a little over an hour, are bookended by scenes of concertgoers filling the room and then emptying it.
    — Damon Wise, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026
  • Instead of customers filling their own containers, Hall plans to install a tap wall and have employees handle the refills.
    — Beret Leone, CBS News, 13 Oct. 2026
Definition of filling
Verb
  • Even as the clash between tech titans and anxious activists intensifies, the debate about AI is increasingly permeating community events, with the young and old grappling with the changes AI is bringing to their cities and the world.
    — Queenie Wong, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2026
  • With artificial intelligence permeating nearly every aspect of life, therapists are seeing more people expressing anxiety about the technology.
    — Theara Coleman, TheWeek, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of permeating
Verb
  • The warnings come as rising borrowing costs threaten to complicate financing for technology companies investing heavily in AI infrastructure.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 12 Oct. 2026
  • After investing heavily in the small Aussie gas players, Tamboran and Beetaloo Energy, Sheffield also started his own Australian subsidiary, Daly Waters Energy.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of investing
Verb
  • Two of the strongest El Niños in the last 75 years, in 1982-83 and 1997-98, were associated with extensive damage to the Southern California coast, battering homes, flooding streets and damaging piers.
    — Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The making of monsters The Cornell gang rape investigation flooding social media outlets and news coverage and fueling a lot of discussions actually took place in 2024.
    — Stephanie Jones, AJC.com, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of flooding

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“Suffusing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/suffusing. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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