Diffuse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To pour out and cause to spread freely.
  • v. To spread about or scatter; disseminate.
  • v. To make less brilliant; soften.
  • verb-intransitive. To become widely dispersed; spread out.
  • verb-intransitive. Physics To undergo diffusion.
  • adj. Widely spread or scattered; not concentrated.
  • adj. Characterized by verbosity; wordy. See Synonyms at wordy.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.
  • v. To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
  • v. To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. 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.
  • verb-intransitive. To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
  • adj. Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To pour out and spread, as a fluid; cause to flow and spread.
  • To spread abroad; scatter; send out or extend in all directions.
  • Synonyms To scatter, disseminate, circulate, disperse, distribute, propagate.
  • To spread, as a fluid, by the wandering of its molecules in amongst those of a contiguous fluid.
  • Widely spread or diffused; extended; dispersed; scattered.
  • Specifically
  • In pathology, spreading widely and having no distinctively defined limits: as, a diffuse inflammation or suppuration: opposed to circumscribed.
  • In boto, spreading widely and loosely.
  • In embryology, applied to a form of non-deciduate placenta in which the fetal villi form a broad belt.
  • In zoology, sparse; few and scattered, as markings; especially, in entomology, said of punctures, etc., when they are less thickly set than on a neighboring part from which they appear to be scattered off.
  • Prolix; using many words; verbose; rambling: said of speakers and writers or their style.
  • Hard to understand; perplexing; requiring extended effort.
  • Synonyms Loose, rambling, wordy, long-winded, diluted, spun out.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. move outward
  • adj. lacking conciseness
  • adj. (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
  • v. spread or diffuse through
  • v. cause to become widely known
  • adj. spread out; not concentrated in one place
  • Equivalent
    prolix    distributed   
    Antonym
    Verb Form
    diffused    diffuses    diffusing   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    diffuser    diffusely   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    scatter    extend    proclaim    expand    publish    spread    disperse    circulate    prolix    full   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bruce    Chartreuse    Cruz    Druse    Druze    Duce    Hughes    Jews    Loos    Luce   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    indistinct    hazy    bluish    vague    fragmentary    unsatisfactory    intermittent    unintelligible    nebulous    watery