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The sunset suffused the sky with a warm, orange glow.suffused = filled or spread over
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Her cheeks were suffused with color as she blushed with embarrassment.
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The atmosphere was suffused with the sweet scent of smoke. (source)suffused = filled
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In the hall Mildred's face was suffused with excitement. (source)
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The suffusion drained away from Jack's face. (source)suffusion = flush (blushing complexion)
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They felt suffused with health and wellbeing.† (source)
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Through the walls, I could see the whole kitchen suffused with gold light.† (source)
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Suffusing it all, the pain.† (source)
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The mist begins to suffuse with light.† (source)
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The suffusion of the brain will increase quickly, so we must trephine at once or it may be too late.† (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. In the case of suffusion, it can sometimes refer specifically to the blush that results from blood spreading into capillaries near the surface of the skin.
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A strange otherworldly light suffuses the house smelling of labor and sanctity.† (source)
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As he threw down his book, stretched his legs towards the embers in the grate, and clasped his hands at the back of his head, in that agreeable afterglow of excitement when thought lapses from examination of a specific object into a suffusive sense of its connections with all the rest of our existence—seems, as it were, to throw itself on its back after vigorous swimming and float with the repose of unexhausted strength—Lydgate felt a triumphant delight in his studies, and something like pity for those less lucky men who were not of his profession.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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To a landsman, no whale, nor any sign of a herring, would have been visible at that moment; nothing but a troubled bit of greenish white water, and thin scattered puffs of vapour hovering over it, and suffusingly blowing off to leeward, like the confused scud from white rolling billows.† (source)
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There is some unsuffusing thing beyond thee, thou clear spirit, to whom all thy eternity is but time, all thy creativeness mechanical.† (source)unsuffusing = not spreadstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unsuffusing means not and reverses the meaning of suffusing. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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In that moment Ye saw the rest of her life suffused with an endless grayness.† (source)
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Tyler trailed off since the colonel seemed to be suffusing a bit.† (source)
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