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suffuse
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)
- (transitive) To spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
- (transitive, figuratively) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
- (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)
- 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.
- 1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243:
Italian
Verb
suffuse
- third-person singular past historic of suffondere
Noun
suffuse f
- plural of suffondere
Latin
Participle
suff?se
- vocative masculine singular of suff?sus
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disperse
English
Etymology
From French disperser, from Latin dispersus, past participle of dispergere (“to scatter abroad, disperse”), from dis- (“apart”) + spargere (“to scatter”); see sparse.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /d??sp??s/
- (General American) IPA(key): /d??sp??s/
- Rhymes: -??(?)s
- Hyphenation: dis?perse
Verb
disperse (third-person singular simple present disperses, present participle dispersing, simple past and past participle dispersed)
- (transitive, intransitive) To scatter in different directions.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:disperse
- (transitive, intransitive) To break up and disappear; to dissipate.
- (transitive, intransitive) To disseminate.
- (physics, transitive, intransitive) To separate rays of light, etc., according to wavelength; to refract.
- (transitive, intransitive) To distribute throughout.
Usage notes
- Do not confuse with the monetary word disburse, despite the two being near homophones and having a degree of semantic similarity (in which disbursed money may be dispersed among expenses). A mnemonic to help make the difference obvious (which uses a cognate of each word) is that d?s-burs-ing is taking money out of the purse, whereas d?-spers-ing causes something to be sparsely scattered.
Derived terms
Related terms
- dispersal
- dispersible
- dispersion
Translations
Adjective
disperse (comparative more disperse, superlative most disperse)
- Scattered or spread out.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- Perseids, despiser, perseids, presides
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis.p??s/
Verb
disperse
- inflection of disperser:
- first/third-person singular present indicative
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Anagrams
- perdisse, prédises, prédisse, présides
German
Adjective
disperse
- inflection of dispers:
- strong/mixed nominative/accusative feminine singular
- strong nominative/accusative plural
- weak nominative all-gender singular
- weak accusative feminine/neuter singular
Italian
Adjective
disperse
- feminine plural of disperso
Noun
disperse f pl
- plural of dispersa
Verb 1
disperse
- inflection of disperdere:
- third-person singular past historic
- third-person singular past historic
Verb 2
disperse f
- feminine plural of disperso
Anagrams
- depressi, perdessi, predisse
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /dis?per.se/, [d??s??p?rs??]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /dis?per.se/, [d?is?p?rs?]
Participle
disperse
- vocative masculine singular of dispersus
References
- disperse in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- disperse in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- disperse in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Verb
disperse
- first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of dispersar
- third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of dispersar
- third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of dispersar
- third-person singular (você) negative imperative of dispersar
Spanish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dis?pe?se/, [d?is?pe?.se]
Verb
disperse
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of dispersar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of dispersar.
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