Imbrue vs Suffuse - What's the difference?
imbrue | suffuse | Related terms |
To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
* 1837 : Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid , volume II,
To spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to perfuse.
(figuratively) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
Imbrue is a related term of suffuse.
As verbs the difference between imbrue and suffuse
is that imbrue is to stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc) while suffuse is to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to perfuse.imbrue
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Alternative forms
* embrueVerb
pages 275–276]([[w:Bentley's Miscellany, Richard Bentley])
- Armed with the weapon which was destined to destroy himself, Imnaz sprang down the ladder,?—?found the door, and, emerging from the abode of crime, sought a more secure resting place, leaving his hostess to discover, with return of day, in whose blood were imbrued the hands of an hospiticide.
Anagrams
*suffuse
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Verb
(suffus)- The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
- The warmth suffused his cold fingers.