different between imbrue vs suffuse

English

Etymology

From Old French embruer, from Germanic.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?b?u?/

Verb

imbrue (third-person singular simple present imbrues, present participle imbruing, simple past and past participle imbrued)

1. To stain (in, with, blood, slaughter, etc.).
   • 1837: Edward Smallwood, Manuella, the Executioner’s Daughter?;?A Story of Madrid, volume II, pages 275–276 (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.

Alternative forms

• embrue

Translations

Anagrams

• erbium, imbuer, murbie

English

Etymology

From Latin suffund?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /s??fju?z/
• Rhymes: -u?z

Verb

suffuse (third-person singular simple present suffuses, present participle suffusing, simple past and past participle suffused)

1. (transitive) To spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.

2. (transitive, figuratively) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
3. (transitive) To pour underneath.

Usage notes

• The verb is often used in the passive voice.

Synonyms

• diffuse

Derived terms

• suffusate
• suffusion
• suffusive

Related terms

• infuse

Translations

Adjective

suffuse (comparative more suffuse, superlative most suffuse)

1. Suffused; diffuse.
   • 1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243:

     This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent.

   • 2014, Rita Petrini, Through the Curtain of Time and Space (?ISBN):

     Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum.

Italian

Verb

suffuse

1. third-person singular past historic of suffondere

Noun

suffuse f

1. plural of suffondere

Latin

Participle

suff?se

1. vocative masculine singular of suff?sus