Sufuse vs Infuse - What's the difference?
sufuse | infuse |
To cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill.
To steep in a liquid, so as to extract the soluble constituents (usually medicinal or herbal).
* Coxe
To inspire; to inspirit or animate; to fill (with).
* Shakespeare
* Shakespeare
To instill as a quality.
* Shakespeare
* Jonathan Swift
To undergo infusion.
* Let it infuse for five minutes.
To make an infusion with (an ingredient); to tincture; to saturate.
(obsolete) To pour in, as a liquid; to pour (into or upon); to shed.
* Denham
sufuse
Not English
Sufuse has no English definition. It may be misspelled.infuse
English
Verb
(infus)- One scruple of dried leaves is infused in ten ounces of warm water.
- Infuse his breast with magnanimity.
- infusing him with self and vain conceit
- That souls of animals infuse themselves / Into the trunks of men.
- Why should he desire to have qualities infused into his son, which himself never possessed, or knew, or found the want of, in the acquisition of his wealth?
- (Francis Bacon)
- That strong Circean liquor cease to infuse .