| NOUN | process | suffusion, permeation, pervasion | the process of permeating / permeating / permeating or infusing something with a substance |
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| Meaning | The process of permeating / permeating / permeating or infusing something with a substance. | |
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| Synonyms | permeation, pervasion | |
| Narrower | ammonification | impregnation with ammonia or a compound of ammonia |
| carbonation | saturation with carbon dioxide (as soda water) | |
| impregnation, saturation | The process of totally saturating something with a substance | |
| Broader | diffusion | (physics) the process in which there is movement of a substance from an area of high concentration of that substance to an area of lower concentration |
| Spanish | saturación | |
| Verbs | suffuse | to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light |
| suffuse | cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across | |
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