The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
Source: wiktionary
Suffuse
//səˈfjuːz//
Synonyms for "suffuse" (60 found)
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Closest matches (12)
Strong matches (18)
Related words (30)
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Translations
23 translations across 9 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- заливам verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
- разстилам се verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
Dutch
2 entries- bedekken verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
- overgieten verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
German
4 entries- bedecken verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
- bedecken verb (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid)
- durchfluten verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
- durchziehen verb (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid)
Norwegian
1 entries- bre seg over verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
Portuguese
1 entries- infundir verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
Russian
4 entries- напо́лнить verb (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid)
- наполня́ть verb (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid)
- охва́тывать verb (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid)
- охвати́ть verb (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid)
Spanish
2 entries- repartir verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
- repartir verb (to spread through or over in the manner of a liquid)
Tocharian B
1 entries- snätk verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
Ukrainian
3 entries- заливати verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
- наповнювати verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
- покривати verb (to spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light)
Sample sentences
6 total sentences available.
The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
Source: wiktionary
Marie's face was suffused with a sleepy, appreciative look.
Source: wiktionary
His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 6 available sentences.
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.