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Diffuse
| Diffuse Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Diffuse?
[adj] spread out; not concentrated in one place; "a large diffuse organization"
[adj] lacking conciseness; "a diffuse historical novel"
[v] cause to become widely known; "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
[v] spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"
[v] move outward; "The soldiers fanned out"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Diffuse: broadcast |
circularise |
circularize |
circulate |
disperse |
disseminate |
distribute |
distributed |
fan out |
imbue |
interpenetrate |
pass around |
penetrate |
permeate |
pervade |
prolix |
propagate |
spread |
spread |
spread out
Related Terms | Find terms related to Diffuse: abounding |
abundant |
affluent |
all-sufficing |
ambagious |
ample |
aplenty |
assign |
atomize |
bend |
bespread |
bestrew |
bias |
bottomless |
bounteous |
bountiful |
break into pieces |
break to pieces |
break up |
broad |
broadcast |
carry over |
casual |
circuitous |
circulate |
circumfuse |
circumlocutory |
communicate |
consign |
copious |
crash |
crawl with |
creep with |
crook |
crunch |
crush |
curve |
cut to pieces |
deal out |
deflect |
deflected |
deflective |
deliver |
demolish |
deport |
desultory |
deviate |
diffract |
diffracted |
diffractive |
diffuse |
diffused |
diffusive |
digressive |
discrete |
discursive |
disjoin |
dispel |
dispense |
disperse |
dispersed |
dispread |
disrupt |
disseminate |
disseminated |
dissipate |
dissipated |
distort |
distorted |
distribute |
distributed |
diverge |
divert |
dogleg |
ease |
ease off |
effuse |
effusive |
emanate |
epidemic |
exhaustless |
expand |
expel |
export |
extend |
extend throughout |
extended |
extensive |
extradite |
extravagant |
exuberant |
fan out |
far-embracing |
far-extending |
far-flung |
far-flying |
far-going |
far-ranging |
far-reaching |
fat |
fecund |
fertile |
fill |
fission |
flectional |
flexed |
flush |
formless |
fragment |
free |
full |
galore |
generous |
grind |
gushing |
gushy |
hairpin |
hand forward |
hand on |
hand over |
honeycomb |
imbue |
impart |
import |
in plenty |
in quantity |
indiscriminate |
inexhaustible |
inflective |
infuse |
interlard |
intersow |
intersperse |
intersprinkle |
issue |
large-scale |
lasting |
lavish |
lax |
leave no void |
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 |
much |
numerous |
occupy |
opulent |
overflowing |
overrun |
overscatter |
oversow |
overspread |
overswarm |
pass |
pass on |
pass over |
pass the buck |
penetrate |
perfuse |
periphrastic |
permeate |
pervade |
plenitudinous |
plenteous |
plentiful |
plenty |
pleonastic |
prevailing |
prevalent |
prodigal |
productive |
profuse |
profusive |
prolific |
prolix |
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 |
spread |
spread out |
squash |
squish |
straggling |
straggly |
strew |
strewn |
strown |
suffuse |
superabundant |
swarm with |
sweeping |
switch |
tautologous |
teem with |
teeming |
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-provided |
well-stocked |
wholesale |
wide |
wide-extended |
wide-extending |
wide-ranging |
wide-reaching |
widespread |
wide-stretching |
windy |
wordy |
zigzag
See Also | air |
bare |
bleed |
carry |
creep |
distribute |
generalise |
generalize |
go around |
grow over |
mantle |
percolate |
perforate |
popularise |
popularize |
publicise |
publicize |
run |
run |
sough |
sow |
spiritise |
spiritize |
vulgarise |
vulgarize
Diffuse In Webster's Dictionary
\Dif*fuse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Diffused}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Diffusing}.] [L. diffusus, p. p. of diffundere to
pour out, to diffuse; dif- = dis- + fundere to pour. See
{Fuse} to melt.]
To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow
on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to
spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to
diffuse information.
Thence diffuse His good to worlds and ages infinite.
--Milton.
We find this knowledge diffused among all civilized
nations. --Whewell.
Syn: To expand; spread; circulate; extend; scatter; disperse;
publish; proclaim.
\Dif*fuse"\, v. i.
To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
\Dif*fuse"\, a. [L. diffusus, p. p.]
Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full;
esp., of style, opposed to {concise} or {terse}; verbose;
prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
A diffuse and various knowledge of divine and human
things. --Milton.
Syn: Prolix; verbose; wide; copious; full. See {Prolix}.
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