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Perfuse

Definitions: Perfuse

Perfuse

Verb

1. Force a fluid through (a body part or tissue); "perfuse a liver with a salt solution".

2. Cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across; "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color"; also of liquids.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Note: Perfuse \Per*fuse"\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Perfused; present participle verb or noun Perfusing.]. (Websters 1913)


Synonym: Perfuse

Synonym: suffuse (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Perfuse

English words defined with "perfuse": Perfused, Perfusing. (references)
Specialty definitions using "perfuse": Blood Substitutes. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Perfuse

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

  perfuse

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Perfuse

Language Translations for "perfuse"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

stërpik, spërkat (asperse, bedew, besprinkle, damp, dampen, dash, dew, plash, slosh, sparge, spatter, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew), derdh përsipër. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

обливам (deluge, lave, pour over, sluice, slush), опръсквам (bespatter, dash), заливам (flash, flood, flush, inundate, lick, overflow, overrun, sluice, splash, swamp, whelm), поръсвам (dredge, dust, powder, sift, sprinkle). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

喷' (Perfused, Perfusing, spraying). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

meglocsol (besprinkle, to dabble, to perfuse, to souse, to water), meghint (to perfuse, to sprinkle), megöntöz (hose, to hose, to hose down, to perfuse, to water), fényárba borít vmit (to perfuse sg with light), fénnyel áraszt el vmit (to perfuse sg with light), beszór (strewed, strewn, to dredge, to perfuse, to sprinkle, to strew), bepermetez (to perfuse), átömleszt (to break bulk, to perfuse, to transfuse, transfuse). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

erfusepay

   

Portuguese

  

por mera formalidade, rociar, orvalhar (asperse, bedew, dew, drop a lawsuit, moisten, sprinkle), encher (charge, clog, close, deluge, distensible, fill, fill in, fill up, flood, full, heap, impregnate, occupy, overspread, pad, peltate, pep, saturate, stuff, stuffing, suffuse, to fill up), borrifar (asperse, bedew, besprinkle, dabble, dash, dew, drop, plash, spray, sprinkle), aspergir (asperse, besprinkle, spray, sprinkle). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

stropi (asperse, beddable, besmear, besmirch, dabble, damp, dash, drop, irrigate, smear, smirch, sparge, spatter, speck, splash, splatter, splutter, spray, sprinkle, sputter, squirt, water). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

gjuta (cast, found, Mold, mould, pour, press, scatter, shed), begjuta (pour upon, soak). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

serpmek (asperse, besprinkle, dabble, dust, intersperse, pulverization, scatter, spill, splash, splatter, spray, sprinkle, strew). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

обприскувати (spray), поливати (shower, water). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Perfuse

Derivations

Words beginning with "perfuse": perfused, perfuses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Perfuse" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: perduci, Perdues, perdus, perfs. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Perfuse

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-f-p-r-s-u"

-1 letter: peruse, purees, refuse, rupees.

-2 letters: feres, frees, fusee, peers, perse, prees, prese, puree, purse, reefs, reuse, rupee, speer, spree, sprue, super.

-3 letters: fees, fere, feus, free, furs, fuse, peer, pees, pree, pure, purs, reef, rees, refs, reps, rues, ruse, seep, seer, sere, serf, spue, spur, suer, supe, sure, surf, user.

-4 letters: efs, ere, ers.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-f-p-r-s-u"
 

+1 letter: perfumes, perfused, perfuses.

 

+2 letters: perfumers, perfusate, pufferies, putrefies, reposeful, superfine, supersafe, superwife.

 

+3 letters: fourplexes, perfusates, prefigures, prefocused, prefocuses, presageful, repurifies, respectful, superfixes.

 

+4 letters: perfumeries, pestiferous, pluperfects, prefectures, prefocussed, prefocusses, prestigeful, profuseness, reposefully, spitefuller, superfatted, superficies, superinfect, surfperches, unprofessed.

 

+5 letters: hypersurface, pasqueflower, prequalifies, pridefulness, respectfully, superinfects, typefounders.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Perfuse


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 72 66 75 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01110010 01100110 01110101 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#80 &#101 &#114 &#102 &#117 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 0072 0066 0075 0073 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50718472878571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Translations: Modern
6. Derivations
7. Anagrams
8. Orthography
9. Bibliography


  

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