Both Uses
diffuse
in
The Lords of Discipline
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- Yet even then humor remained the one legitimate response to diffuse the horror of those weekly reports from the front.†
Chpt 1.10 *
- It was visible from where we sat on the stairway, illuminated by a soft, diffuse light from the street.†
Chpt 4.45
Definitions:
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(1)
(diffuse) to spread; or to soften or calm
or:
to be spread out (not concentrated) -- sometimes implying a lack of organization - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)