Diffuse

//dɪˈfjuz//

Synonyms for "diffuse" (364 found)

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Closest matches (73)

Strong matches (109)

dispense disperse dispersed dispread disrupt disseminate disseminated dissipate dissipated dissolve distort distorted distribute diverge divert dogleg ease ease off effuse effusive

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Verb(14 words)

disperse disseminate distribute eliminate eradicate extinguish extirpate fan out forspread fuck harry imbue interpenetrate lay waste

Adjective(6 words)

dispersed dreich fustian garrulous gassy incompact

Related words (182)

leaven lengthy let go let up liberal long long-drawn-out long-winded loose loosen loquacious luxuriant make mincemeat of make over many maximal meandering metastasize metathesize mince

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much numerous occupy opulent overflowing overrun overscatter oversow overspread overswarm pass pass on pass over pass the buck penetrate perfuse periphrastic pervade plenitudinous plenteous plentiful plenty pleonastic prevailing prevalent prodigal productive profuse profusive prolific prolonged propagate protracted publish pull pulverize radiate rambling rampant random ray redundant refract refracted refractile refractive refrangible reiterative relax relay repetitive replete retail rich rife riotous roundabout run through running over scatter scattered shatter shiver skew skewed slack slack off slacken smash smash up sow sow broadcast sparse splay splinter sporadic spray spread spread out squash squish straggling straggly strew strewn strown suffuse superabundant swarm with sweeping switch tautologous teem teem with teeming throw transfer transfer property transfuse translate translocate transmit transplace transplant transpose turn turn over twist unglue unleash unstick utter verbose warp wealthy well-found well-furnished well-planned well-provided well-stocked wholesale wide wide-extended wide-extending wide-ranging wide-reaching wide-stretching widespread windy wordy zigzag

Verb(17 words)

liquidate nuke obliterate pass around penetrate permeate pervade propagate race ravage ravel raze riddle spread spread out subvert uproot

Adjective(13 words)

loose noncompact palaverous prolix rigmarole scattered spaced out sparse spread out thin uncompact verbose voluminous

Adjective(1 words)

soft

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

8 relation types

More general

8 entries

air bare distribute penetrate perforate publicise publicize spread

More specific

4 entries

few and far between rare rarefied shattery

Synonyms

4 entries

circulate diffused forspread permeate

Related terms

2 entries

diffusion nebulous

derived

20 entries

diffusability diffusable diffusate diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis diffuse large B-cell lymphoma diffuse parenchymal lung disease diffusely diffuseness diffuser diffusible diffuson hydrodiffuse interdiffuse nondiffuse outdiffuse overdiffuse

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manner of

1 entries

spread

related to

11 entries

air concentrate diffusion fluid focus motion passive spread verbose water wordy

similar

8 entries

circulate distributed go around prolix spread verbal

Translations

81 translations across 23 languages.

Bulgarian

4 entries

дифузен adj (not focused or concentrated)
разсеян adj (not focused or concentrated)
разпространявам verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
разпръсвам verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)

Catalan

2 entries

difús adj (not focused or concentrated)
difondre verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)

Chinese Mandarin

4 entries

使渗出 verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)
扩散 verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
渗出 verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
被扩散 verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)

Danish

3 entries

diffus adj (not focused or concentrated)
uklar adj (not focused or concentrated)
diffus verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)

Finnish

4 entries

diffuusi adj (not focused or concentrated)
hajaantunut adj (not focused or concentrated)
hajanainen adj (not focused or concentrated)
lavea adj (not focused or concentrated)

French

3 entries

diffus adj (not focused or concentrated)
diffuser verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
se diffuser verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)

German

3 entries

diffus adj (not focused or concentrated)
diffundieren verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
diffundieren verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)

Hungarian

4 entries

diffúz adj (not focused or concentrated)
szétszórt adj (not focused or concentrated)
szórt adj (not focused or concentrated)
terjengős adj (wordy, verbose)

Ido

1 entries

difuzar verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)

Indonesian

1 entries

difus adj (not focused or concentrated)

Irish

2 entries

idirleata adj (not focused or concentrated)
idirleath verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)

Italian

1 entries

diffuso adj (not focused or concentrated)

Middle English

1 entries

toscheden verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)

Māori

4 entries

horahora adj (not focused or concentrated)
kona verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)
tūrererere verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
tūringiringi verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)

Norwegian

3 entries

diffus adj (not focused or concentrated)
diffundere verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
diffundere verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)

Portuguese

3 entries

difuso adj (not focused or concentrated)
difundir verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
difundir verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)

Russian

4 entries

распространи́ть verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
распространи́ться verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)
распространя́ть verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
распространя́ться verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)

Spanish

1 entries

difuso adj (not focused or concentrated)

Swedish

3 entries

diffus adj (not focused or concentrated)
diffundera verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
diffundera verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)

Tagalog

2 entries

ikalat verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
kumalat verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)

Turkish

1 entries

dağınık adj (not focused or concentrated)

Vietnamese

2 entries

khuếch tán verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
lan toả verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)

Welsh

2 entries

tryledu verb ((transitive) to spread over or through)
tryledu verb ((intransitive) to be spread over or through)

Sample sentences

14 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

She gave a diffuse answer.

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Layla tried to diffuse the situation.

Source: tatoeba (6072123)

Tom tried to diffuse the situation.

Source: tatoeba (6089134)

How can we diffuse the conflict?

Source: tatoeba (10620764)

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