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Definition

to spread; or to soften or calm

or:

to be spread out (not concentrated) — sometimes implying a lack or organization or the use of too many words

When the United States focused on terrorism, the movement went further underground and became more diffuse.

diffuse = spread out

diffuse = spread out (not concentrated)

The lake suffers form diffuse contamination that does not originate from any single source.

diffuse = distributed

diffuse = soft (not concentrated)

diffuse = spread

a large diffuse organization
Diffuse axonal injury is one of the most common and devastating types of traumatic brain injury.
Flora, who had seemed enchanting in all she said and thought, was diffuse and silly.
Dickens, Charles -- Little Dorrit
The smell was already filling the room, a rich hot smell which seemed like an emanation from his early childhood, but which one did occasionally meet with even now, blowing down a passage-way before a door slammed, or diffusing itself mysteriously in a crowded street, sniffed for an instant and then lost again.
George Orwell -- 1984

diffusing = spread out

A richer tint of crimson diffused itself over the pictured horrors of blood.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Pit and the Pendulum

diffused = spread

He took the list to the university president, and the situation was diffused.
Mitch Albom -- Tuesdays with Morrie

diffused = calmed

the tone of the diffused green light of the sea bottom.
John Steinbeck -- The Pearl

diffused = faintly dispersed (spread without being concentrated or bright in any one area)

I smile as much as my bruised cheek will allow, hoping that will diffuse the tension.
Veronica Roth -- Divergent

diffuse = soften or calm

They diffused and melted Janie, the room and the world into one comprehension.
Zora Neale Hurston -- Their Eyes Were Watching God

diffused = mixed or spread into each other (so there are no defined edges)

Looking back at the grotesque peaks and shadowy angles of the old mansion, they fancied a gloom diffused about it which no brightness of the sunshine could dispel.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables

diffused = spread

As the sun went higher and left the eastern sky, the square of sunshine on the wall grew larger and diffuse, and the bright yellow color of early morning was gone.
Leslie Marmon Silko -- Ceremony

diffuse = more spread out and softer (less concentrated or less bright)

Though the sky was dense with cloud, a diffused light from some fragment of a moon had hitherto helped them a little.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
The air of wealth and repose diffused about them seemed to comfort their neediness.
James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
You can't see the sun through the thin buffer of cloud cover but the light is fully diffused, almost too bright to see.
Chang-rae Lee -- Native Speaker
Slowly the dawn grew to a pale light, diffused and shadowless.
J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring

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