Infuse vs Suffused - What's the difference?
infuse | suffused |
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
(suffuse)
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.
As verbs the difference between infuse and suffused
is that infuse is to cause to become an element of something; to insert or fill while suffused is (suffuse).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 .
References
* 1902 Webster's International dictionary. * 1984 Consise Oxford 7th ed.See also
* fuse ----suffused
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Verb
(head)suffuse
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Verb
(suffus)- The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
- The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
