intransitive verb. To cause to spread out freely.

intransitive verb. To make known to or cause to be used by large numbers of people; disseminate.

intransitive verb. To make less brilliant; soften.

intransitive verb. To make less intense; weaken.

intransitive verb. To cause to undergo diffusion.

intransitive verb. To become widely dispersed; spread out.

intransitive verb. To undergo diffusion.

adjective. Widely spread or scattered; not concentrated.

adjective. Wordy or unclear: synonym: wordy.

To pour out and spread, as a fluid; cause to flow and spread.

To spread abroad; scatter; send out or extend in all directions.

Synonyms To scatter, disseminate, circulate, disperse, distribute, propagate.

To spread, as a fluid, by the wandering of its molecules in amongst those of a contiguous fluid.

Widely spread or diffused; extended; dispersed; scattered.

Specifically

In pathology, spreading widely and having no distinctively defined limits: as, a diffuse inflammation or suppuration: opposed to circumscribed.

In boto, spreading widely and loosely.

In embryology, applied to a form of non-deciduate placenta in which the fetal villi form a broad belt.

In zoology, sparse; few and scattered, as markings; especially, in entomology, said of punctures, etc., when they are less thickly set than on a neighboring part from which they appear to be scattered off.

Prolix; using many words; verbose; rambling: said of speakers and writers or their style.

Hard to understand; perplexing; requiring extended effort.

Synonyms Loose, rambling, wordy, long-winded, diluted, spun out.

intransitive verb. To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.

transitive verb. 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.

adjective. Poured out; widely spread; not restrained; copious; full; esp., of style, opposed to concise or terse; verbose; prolix

verb. To spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.

verb. To be spread over or through as in air, water, or other matter, especially by fluid motion or passive means.

adjective. Everywhere or throughout everything; not focused or concentrated.

verb. move outward

adjective. lacking conciseness

adjective. (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected

verb. spread or diffuse through

verb. cause to become widely known

adjective. spread out; not concentrated in one place

"This crisis has arisen, the Prof says, because intensive cultivation has given rise to an upward trend in "diffuse" pollution from nitrates and phosphates which is proving difficult to reverse."

concentrate  

diffuse ganglion  prolix  

distributed  prolix  

diffusion  

diffusely  diffuser  

Bruce  Chartreuse  Cruz  Druse  Druze  

ambiguous  bluish  fragmentary  ghostly  hazy  

abounding  abundant  affluent  all-sufficing  ambagious  

diffused  diffuses  diffusing