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  • verb Present participle of suffuse.

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Examples

  • As he drew closer, he saw the network of dark-green lines suffusing the flesh.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • A grim smile flashed in the reaches of his gaze, a wicked greed suffusing his face.

    Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011

  • The world is still changing at a pretty good pace, and one of those changes is that technological goods are still getting cheaper and suffusing into places where we never thought they would.

    Advisor: Was it cruel to let poor kids in India play with my iPod? Boing Boing 2009

  • As he drew closer, he saw the network of dark-green lines suffusing the flesh.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • And yet a biographer charged with looking at a single issue and how it played out in Trotsky's life might just want to exercise a little boldness, not refuting the multiple reasons for Trotsky's failure to seize power but suffusing them with the underlying premise that, in the eyes of so many others, once a Jew, always a Jew—as Trotsky himself knew full well.

    A Jewish Revolutionary Carl Rollyson 2011

  • However, in striving to achieve an appropriately soothing effect by suffusing the waters with a sort of pale milky blush of eau de nil, the better to slow them down, even warm them up a bit, most unfortunately the Master of Pyongyang creates the impression here not of a glacial burn or torrent fed by thawing snow, but rather the cloudy, acrid run-off from some unseen nuclear research facility a little way upstream.

    The Mural II 2009

  • As he drew closer, he saw the network of dark-green lines suffusing the flesh.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • They were lean and pale, even in the bloody light suffusing everything.

    Slice Of Cherry Dia Reeves 2011

  • However, in striving to achieve an appropriately soothing effect by suffusing the waters with a sort of pale milky blush of eau de nil, the better to slow them down, even warm them up a bit, most unfortunately the Master of Pyongyang creates the impression here not of a glacial burn or torrent fed by thawing snow, but rather the cloudy, acrid run-off from some unseen nuclear research facility a little way upstream.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • As he drew closer, he saw the network of dark-green lines suffusing the flesh.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

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