suffuse
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/icons/point.icon INFUSE, SUFFUSE, IMBUE, INGRAIN, INOCULATE, LEAVEN mean to introduce one thing into another so as to affect it throughout.
INFUSE implies a pouring in of something that gives new life or significance.
e.g. new members infused enthusiasm into the club
SUFFUSE implies a spreading through of something that gives an unusual color or quality.
e.g. a room suffused with light
IMBUE implies the introduction of a quality that fills and permeates the whole being.
e.g. imbue students with intellectual curiosity
INGRAIN, used only in the passive or past participle, suggests the deep implanting of a quality or trait.
e.g. clung to ingrained habits
INOCULATE implies an imbuing or implanting with a germinal idea and often suggests stealth or subtlety.
e.g. an electorate inoculated with dangerous ideas
LEAVEN implies introducing something that enlivens, tempers, or markedly alters the total quality.
e.g. a serious play leavened with comic moments
verb with object
gradually spread through or over:
｟文･かたく｠ 〈光･感情･性質などが〉〈人･物･状況など〉を覆う, 満たす; 〖be ～d with A〗 Aで満たされる
e.g. her cheeks were suffused with color
e.g. the first half of the poem is suffused with idealism.
DERIVATIVES
suffusion |səˈfyo͞oZH(ə)n| noun
suffusive |-ˈfyo͞osiv| adjective
ORIGIN
late 16th century: from Latin suffus- ‘poured into’, from sub- ‘below, from below’ + fundere ‘pour’.