diffuse

• POS: Adjective, Verb (usu participle)
• HYPHEN: dif=fuse

OXFORD DICTIONARY

diffuse, adj. & v.
--adj.
1 (of light, inflammation, etc.) spread out, diffused, not concentrated.
2 (of prose, speech, etc.) not concise, long-winded, verbose.
--v.tr. & intr.
1 disperse or be dispersed from a centre.
2 spread or be spread widely; reach a large area.
3 Physics (esp. of fluids) intermingle by diffusion.

Derivative

diffusely adv. diffuseness n. diffusible adj. diffusive adj.

Etymology

ME f. F diffus or L diffusus extensive (as DIS-, fusus past part. of fundere pour)

THESAURUS

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, wide-stretching, widespread, windy, wordy, zigzag

ROGET THESAURUS

diffuse

Diffuseness

N diffuseness, amplification, dilating, verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness, Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology, pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy, thrice-told tale, prolixity, circumlocution, ambages, periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases, episode, expletive, pennya-lining, richness, diffuse, profuse, wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy, longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out, spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout, digressive, discursive, excursive, loose, rambling episodic, flatulent, frothy, diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it.

Dispersion

VB disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute, apportion, blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off, strew, straw, strow, ted, spirtle, cast, sprinkle, issue, deal out, retail, utter, resperse, intersperse, set abroach, circumfuse, turn adrift, cast adrift, scatter to the winds, spread like wildfire, disperse themselves.

Gaseity

VB vaporize, evaporate, evanesce, gasify, emit vapor, diffuse.

Publication

VB publish, make public, make known, speak of, talk of, broach, utter, put forward, circulate, propagate, promulgate, spread, spread abroad, rumor, diffuse, disseminate, evulugate, put forth, give forth, send forth, emit, edit, get out, issue, bring before the public, lay before the public, drag before the public, give out, give to the world, put about, bandy about, hawk about, buzz about, whisper about, bruit about, blaze about, drag into the open day, voice, proclaim, herald, blazon, blaze abroad, noise abroad, sound a trumpet, trumpet forth, thunder forth, give tongue, announce with beat of drum, announce with flourish of trumpets, proclaim from the housetops, proclaim at Charing Cross, advertise, placard, post, post up afficher, publish in the Gazette, send round the crier, raise a cry, raise a hue and cry, raise a report, set news afloat, be published, be public, become public, come out, go about, fly about, buzz about, blow about, get about, get abroad, get afloat, get wind, find vent, see the light, go forth, take air, acquire currency, pass current, go the rounds, go the round of the newspapers, go through the length and breadth of the land, virum volitare per ora, pass from mouth to mouth, spread, run like wildfire, spread like wildfire.