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Diffuse

adjective

1.

Spread out; not concentrated in one place.

2.

(of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected. Synonyms: diffused, soft.

3.

Lacking conciseness.

verb

(past & past part. diffused; pres. part. diffusing)

1.

Move outward. Synonyms: fan out, spread, spread out.

2.

Spread or diffuse through. Synonyms: imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle. "Music penetrated the entire building" , "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"

3.

Cause to become widely known. Synonyms: broadcast, circularise, circularize, circulate, disperse, disseminate, distribute, pass around, propagate, spread. "Circulate a rumor" , "Broadcast the news"

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"Diffuse" Quotes from Famous Books

... a narrow and obscure Entry. A Glare of Light suddenly breaks upon you, beyond what the Avenue at first promis'd: and a thousand Beauties of Genius and Character, like so many gaudy Apartments pouring at once upon the Eye, diffuse and throw themselves out to the Mind. The Prospect is too wide to come within the Compass of a single View: 'tis a gay Confusion of pleasing Objects, too various to be enjoyed but in a general Admiration; and they ...

— Preface to the Works of Shakespeare (1734) • Lewis Theobald

... the head up and inserting the fingers through the interdental space in such a way as to cause the mouth to open. The mucous membrane should be clean and of a light-pink color, excepting on the back of the tongue, where the color is a yellowish gray. As abnormalities of this region, the chief are diffuse inflammation, characterized by redness and catarrhal discharge; local inflammation, as from eruptions, ulcers, or wounds; necrosis of the lower jawbone in front of the first back tooth; and swellings. Foreign bodies are sometimes found embedded in the mucous membrane lining ...

— Special Report on Diseases of the Horse • United States Department of Agriculture

... should be, and could easily be the spiritual teacher—or example—of the world. He must not only prove his spirituality but he must diffuse it, that others may realize its power even if they may not ...

— The Colored Girl Beautiful • E. Azalia Hackley

... Hunt, as we observed in a former number, aspires to be the hierophant.... This author is a copyist of Mr. Hunt, but he is more unintelligible, almost as rugged, twice as diffuse, and ten times more tiresome and absurd, than his prototype, who, though he impudently presumed to seat himself in the chair of criticism, and to measure his own poetry by his own standard, yet generally had a meaning. ...

— Adonais • Shelley

... ye inclined these things to disavow? Or will my statements be by you denied? If not they stand for truth both far and wide, And your example may be found of use In leading others quickly to decide That they for ignorance have no excuse In this enlightened age, when Knowledge is diffuse. ...

— The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales In Verse - Together With Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects • Thomas Cowherd

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