Suffuse vs Wreathe - What's the difference?
suffuse | wreathe |
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.
To twist, curl or entwine something into a shape similar to a wreath
To form a wreathlike shape around something
To curl, writhe or spiral in the form of a wreath
(obsolete) To turn violently aside or around; to wrench.
*1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
*:from so heauie sight his head did wreath , / Accusing fortune, and too cruell fate [...].
In transitive terms the difference between suffuse and wreathe
is that suffuse is to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to perfuse while wreathe is to form a wreathlike shape around something.suffuse
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Verb
(suffus)- The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
- The warmth suffused his cold fingers.