[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

diffuse \diffuse"\, a. l. diffusus, p. p.
   poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full;
   esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose;
   prolix; as, a diffuse style; a diffuse writer.
   1913 webster

         a diffuse and various knowledge of divine and human
         things.                                  --milton.

   syn: prolix; verbose; wide; copious; full. see prolix.
        1913 webster
see also:
concise terse prolix 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

diffuse \diffuse"\, v. t. imp.  p. p. diffused; p. pr. 
   vb. n. diffusing. l. diffusus, p. p. of diffundere to
   pour out, to diffuse; dif- = dis- + fundere to pour. see
   fuse to melt.
   to pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow
   on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to
   spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to
   diffuse information.
   1913 webster

         thence diffuse
         his good to worlds and ages infinite.    --milton.
   1913 webster

         we find this knowledge diffused among all civilized
         nations.                                 --whewell.

   syn: to expand; spread; circulate; extend; scatter; disperse;
        publish; proclaim.
        1913 webster
see also:
diffused diffusing fuse 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

diffuse \diffuse"\, v. i.
   to pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

diffuse
     adj 1: spread out; not concentrated in one place; "a large diffuse
            organization"
     2: lacking conciseness; "a diffuse historical novel"
     v 1: move outward; "the soldiers fanned out" syn: spread, spread
          out, fan out
     2: spread or diffuse through; "an atmosphere of distrust has
        permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the
        entire building" syn: permeate, pervade, penetrate,
         interpenetrate, imbue
     3: cause to become widely known; "spread information";
        "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news" syn: circulate,
         circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate,
         propagate, broadcast, spread, disperse, pass
        around
see also:
spread spread out fan out permeate pervade penetrate 
interpenetrate imbue circulate circularize circularise 
distribute disseminate propagate broadcast disperse 
pass around 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

289 moby thesaurus words for "diffuse":
   abounding, abundant, affluent, all-sufficing, ambagious, ample,
   aplenty, assign, atomize, bend, bespread, bestrew, bias,
   bottomless, bounteous, bountiful, break into pieces,
   break to pieces, break up, broad, broadcast, carry over, casual,
   circuitous, circulate, circumfuse, circumlocutory, communicate,
   consign, copious, crash, crawl with, creep with, crook, crunch,
   crush, curve, cut to pieces, deal out, deflect, deflected,
   deflective, deliver, demolish, deport, desultory, deviate,
   diffract, diffracted, diffractive, diffuse, diffused, diffusive,
   digressive, discrete, discursive, disjoin, dispel, dispense,
   disperse, dispersed, dispread, disrupt, disseminate, disseminated,
   dissipate, dissipated, distort, distorted, distribute, distributed,
   diverge, divert, dogleg, ease, ease off, effuse, effusive, emanate,
   epidemic, exhaustless, expand, expel, export, extend,
   extend throughout, extended, extensive, extradite, extravagant,
   exuberant, fan out, far-embracing, far-extending, far-flung,
   far-flying, far-going, far-ranging, far-reaching, fat, fecund,
   fertile, fill, fission, flectional, flexed, flush, formless,
   fragment, free, full, galore, generous, grind, gushing, gushy,
   hairpin, hand forward, hand on, hand over, honeycomb, imbue,
   impart, import, in plenty, in quantity, indiscriminate,
   inexhaustible, inflective, infuse, interlard, intersow,
   intersperse, intersprinkle, issue, large-scale, lasting, lavish,
   lax, leave no void, leaven, lengthy, let go, let up, liberal, long,
   long-drawn-out, long-winded, loose, loosen, loquacious, luxuriant,
   make mincemeat of, make over, many, maximal, meandering,
   metastasize, metathesize, mince, much, numerous, occupy, opulent,
   overflowing, overrun, overscatter, oversow, overspread, overswarm,
   pass, pass on, pass over, pass the buck, penetrate, perfuse,
   periphrastic, permeate, pervade, plenitudinous, plenteous,
   plentiful, plenty, pleonastic, prevailing, prevalent, prodigal,
   productive, profuse, profusive, prolific, prolix, prolonged,
   propagate, protracted, publish, pull, pulverize, radiate, rambling,
   rampant, random, ray, redundant, refract, refracted, refractile,
   refractive, refrangible, reiterative, relax, relay, repetitive,
   replete, retail, rich, rife, riotous, roundabout, run through,
   running over, scatter, scattered, shatter, shiver, skew, skewed,
   slack, slack off, slacken, smash, smash up, sow, sow broadcast,
   sparse, splay, splinter, sporadic, spread, spread out, squash,
   squish, straggling, straggly, strew, strewn, strown, suffuse,
   superabundant, swarm with, sweeping, switch, tautologous,
   teem with, teeming, transfer, transfer property, transfuse,
   translate, translocate, transmit, transplace, transplant,
   transpose, turn, turn over, twist, unglue, unleash, unstick, utter,
   verbose, warp, wealthy, well-found, well-furnished, well-provided,
   well-stocked, wholesale, wide, wide-extended, wide-extending,
   wide-ranging, wide-reaching, wide-stretching, widespread, windy,
   wordy, zigzag

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