Diffuse: alternatives and connections

To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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of Distribute

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of Distribute

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Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with refere…

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Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; minute in narration or argument; excessively particular in detail; -- rarely used except with refere…

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Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimon…

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Expressed in words, whether spoken or written, but commonly in spoken words; hence, spoken; oral; not written; as, a verbal contract; verbal testimon…

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The fluid which we breathe, and which surrounds the earth; the atmosphere. It is invisible, inodorous, insipid, transparent, compressible, elastic, a…

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Without clothes or covering; stripped of the usual covering; naked; as, his body is bare; the trees are bare.

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surfa…

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of Spread

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To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

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To convey or transport in any manner from one place to another; to bear; -- often with away or off.

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To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.

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To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera.

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A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.

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To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

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To make popular; to make suitable or acceptable to the common people; to make generally known; as, to popularize philosophy.

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of Run

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To sew. See Sew.

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To make vulgar, or common.

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The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity;…

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The quality of being diffuse; especially, in writing, the use of a great or excessive number of word to express the meaning; copiousness; verbosity;…

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The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites a…

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The act or process of scattering or dispersing, or the state of being scattered or separated; as, the Jews in their dispersion retained their rites a…

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Passing through; permeating.

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Passing through; permeating.

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The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.

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The act of permeating, passing through, or spreading throughout, the pores or interstices of any substance.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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To cause to move continuously by force applied in advance of the thing moved; to pull along; to haul; to drag; to cause to follow.

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A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing.

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To move in a circle or circuitously; to move round and return to the same point; as, the blood circulates in the body.

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of Diffuse

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To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, opinions, and err…

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To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.

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To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

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To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually.

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To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids w…

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To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.

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To cause to continue or multiply by generation, or successive production; -- applied to animals and plants; as, to propagate a breed of horses or she…

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A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…

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Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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of Spread

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