suffuse

Etymology

From Latin suffundō.

verb

1. (transitive) To spread through or over something, especially as a liquid, colour or light; to bathe.
   The entire room was suffused with a golden light.
2. (transitive, figurative) To spread through or over in the manner of a liquid.
   The warmth suffused his cold fingers.
   His newest work, The Beach Bum, shares a gauzy neon aesthetic and Florida setting with Spring Breakers, and it’s marked by the usual plethora of drug use, free love, and pirate’s-life-for-me lawlessness that suffuses every Korine movie. 2019-03-28, David Sims, “A Portrait of the Artist as a Perpetually Stoned Beach Bum”, in The Atlantic
3. (transitive) To pour underneath.

adj

1. Suffused; diffuse.
   This limonite-colored mud is most often very suffuse and only faintly apparent. 1912, New York State Museum, Annual Report, page 243
   Most of us mortals choose a very suffuse, dim light to have in our room, others push the switch to the maximum. 2014, Rita Petrini, Through the Curtain of Time and Space