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• v  move outward
• v  spread or diffuse through
• v  cause to become widely known
• s  spread out; not concentrated in one place
  a large diffuse organization
• a  (of light) transmitted from a broad light source or reflected
• s  lacking conciseness
  a diffuse historical novel

• One senses that his first book, Dreams from My Father, was meant to diffuse some of this vulnerability.
• Much of that success comes from a diffuse, hydra-headed power structure that has rebounded from repeated attempts to put it down.
• The fringes of a suburb like Riverside in Southern California, where housing prices have fallen more than 20% since the bust began, could be too diffuse to thrive in a future where .

• spread
• spread out
• fan out
• permeate
• pervade
• penetrate
• interpenetrate
• imbue
• riddle
• circulate
• circularize
• circularise
• distribute
• disseminate
• propagate
• broadcast
• disperse
• pass around
• soft
• diffused

• hard

News & Articles

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• Resident barricaded in home prompts Metro SWAT response
  Metro Police SWAT has been called to help diffuse a situation in which a person is barricaded inside a residence following a civil disturbance call.
  June 11, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun
• Resident barricaded in home prompts Metro SWAT response
  Metro Police SWAT has been called to help diffuse a situation in which a person is barricaded inside a residence following a civil disturbance call.
  June 11, 2013 - Las Vegas Sun
• Vacaville residents to hold bone marrow drive for family member
  Got a handful of minutes to spare?That's how long it could take to see if you can help save a life.Longtime Vacaville resident Ron Packer, 58, was recently diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and is in need of a bone marrow
  June 9, 2013 - The Vacaville Reporter

Quotes

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• Jeff Bzdelik in Forbes
  It was just kind of a slow death,Bzdelik said. "When you're not making shots, your energy starts to diffuse. It slowly starts to get away from you."
• Carlos Pena in American Chronicle
  It was just appropriate,Pena said. "We could ignore (the losing) and not pay attention to it, or we could face it, and, all of a sudden, you diffuse the bomb. You kind of like shrink the giant. You see his shadow, but when you actually...
• Kevin Garnett in Ninemsn
  This is where they are comfortable. They have a lot of confidence playing in this building and we have to somehow, some way diffuse that,Garnett said. "It gives us a lot of confidence to know we can shoot 30-something percent and almost...