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The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.

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  1. n. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading.
  2. n. That with which a thing is suffused.
  3. n. A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.
  4. n. the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
  5. 1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading. To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color. Ray. 2. That with which a thing is suffused. 3. (Zoöl.) A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.
  6. A blending of one color into another; the spreading of onecolor over another, as on the feathers of birds.
  7. n the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance