Both Uses
diffuse
in
Ordinary People
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- Diffusion of energy, he called it.†
p. 49.7 *
- In front of her house, they talk some more, and he smooths his palm around and around the steering wheel, staring out at the street light, diffusing the yellow bloom of its rays through the windshield.†
p. 171.2
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)