2020-09-09

[soraliu]

diffuse

verb
    spread or cause to spread over a wide area or among a large number of people.
        - "technologies diffuse rapidly"
    Synonyms: bruit abroad

adjective
    spread out over a large area; not concentrated.
        - "the diffuse community centered on the church"
    Synonyms: spread out, diffused, scattered, dispersed, not concentrated

Synonyms
    verb
        - bruit abroad
        - spread, spread out, spread around, send out, scatter, disperse, disseminate, distribute, dispense, put about, circulate, communicate, impart, purvey, propagate, transmit, broadcast, promulgate

    adjective
        - windy, gassy, waffling
        - pleonastic, circumlocutionary, ambagious, logorrhoeic
        - spread out, diffused, scattered, dispersed, not concentrated
        - verbose, wordy, prolix, long-winded, overlong, long-drawn-out, protracted, discursive, rambling, wandering, meandering, maundering, digressive, circuitous, roundabout, circumlocutory, periphrastic, loose, vague

Examples
    - the second argument is more diffuse

    - the light is more diffuse

    - the problem is how to diffuse power without creating anarchy

    - technologies diffuse rapidly

    - oxygen molecules diffuse across the membrane

    - the diffuse community centered on the church

    - diffuse hyperplasia