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When the United States focused on terrorism, the movement went further underground and became more diffuse.diffuse = spread out
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The lamp gives off a diffuse light.diffuse = spread out (not concentrated)
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The lake suffers from diffuse contamination that does not originate from any single source.diffuse = distributed
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She is unrealistic and diffuse in her thinking.diffuse = soft (not concentrated)
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She helped diffuse his ideas throughout the school.diffuse = spread
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I smile as much as my bruised cheek will allow, hoping that will diffuse the tension. (source)diffuse = soften or calm
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He took the list to the university president, and the situation was diffused. (source)diffused = calmed
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the tone of the diffused green light of the sea bottom. (source)diffused = faintly dispersed (spread without being concentrated or bright in any one area)
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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. (source)diffuse = more spread out and softer (less concentrated or less bright)
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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. (source)diffusing = spread out
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The only U.S.-owned gaseous diffusion plant is in Paducah, Kentucky.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
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Each car has a large rubber bumper all around it, which prolongs the impact and diffuses the force of the collision.† (source)
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Reel off a host of threads before their faces, So that they gape in stupid wonder: then By sheer diffuseness you have won their graces, And are, at once, most popular of men.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Mumps declined to express himself more diffusely than by a single affirmative movement of his tail.† (source)
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Hail, many-colour'd messenger, that ne'er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; Who with thy saffron wings upon my flowers Diffusest honey drops, refreshing showers: And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres and my unshrubb'd down, Rich scarf to my proud earth; why hath thy queen Summon'd me hither to this short-grass'd green?† (source)Diffusest = spreads
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If this gas is so highly diffusible ...† (source)
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They diffused and melted Janie, the room and the world into one comprehension. (source)diffused = mixed or spread into each other (so there are no defined edges)
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