| VERB | motion | diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out | move outward |
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| contact | diffuse, permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, imbue, riddle | spread or diffuse through | |
| communication | diffuse, circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, disperse, pass around | cause to become widely known | |
| ADJECTIVE | all | diffuse | spread out |
| all | diffuse, soft, diffused | (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected | |
| all | diffuse | lacking conciseness |
| Sounds | dihfyuw's; dihfyuw'z | |
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| Rhymes | abstruse ... Zeus: 40 rhymes with uws... | |
| abuse ... values: 47 rhymes with uwz... | ||
| Meaning | spread out; not concentrated in one place. | |
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| Example | "a large diffuse organization" | |
| Broader | distributed | Spread out or scattered about or divided up |
| Spanish | difuso | |
| Nouns | diffuseness | the spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume |
| Adverbs | diffusely | in a diffuse manner |
| Meaning | (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected. | |
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| Synonyms | soft, diffused | |
| Opposite | hard, concentrated | (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source |
| Meaning | lacking conciseness. | |
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| Example | "a diffuse historical novel" | |
| Broader | prolix | tediously prolonged or tending to speak or write at great length |
| Spanish | difuso | |
| Meaning | Move outward. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | spread, spread out, fan out | |
| Narrower | creep | Grow or spread, often in such a way as to cover (a surface) |
| mantle | spread over a surface, like a mantle | |
| percolate | Spread gradually | |
| run, bleed | Be diffused | |
| Broader | spread, distribute | Distribute or disperse widely |
| Spanish | desplegarse, difundir, diseminar, esparcirse, esparcir, propagarse, propagar, prppagar | |
| Catalan | estendre's, propagar-se | |
| Nouns | diffusion | the act of dispersing / dispersing or diffusing something |
| Meaning | Spread or diffuse through. | |
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| Pattern | Something ----s something | |
| Synonyms | permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, imbue, riddle | |
| Narrower | spiritize, spiritise | imbue with a spirit / spirit / spirit / spirit |
| Broader | penetrate, perforate | Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance |
| Spanish | difundirse, extenderse, permear | |
| Adjectives | diffusive | spreading by diffusion |
| Nouns | diffusion | the act of dispersing / dispersing or diffusing something |
| diffusor | optical device that distributes the light of a lamp evenly | |
| diffusor | baffle that distributes sound waves evenly | |
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