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diffuse

Botany
1. (esp of some creeping stems) spreading loosely over a large area
2. (of plant growth) occurring throughout a tissue
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The stiffness of the meeting soon gave way before their popular manners and more diffused intimacies: little groups were formed, and everybody grew comfortable.
Denisov smiled, took out of his sabretache a handkerchief that diffused a smell of perfume, and put it to Nesvitski's nose.
The bomb disposal squad immediately diffused the bomb.
QUETTA:The police foiled a terror bid as it recovered a bomb in the provincial capital which was later diffused by the bomb disposal squad (BDS).According to details, the police during a routine patrolling at Circular Road in Quetta found a bomb weighing 10 kilogrammes, planted by the roadside by unknown miscreants.
On auxiliary examination, chest CT scan [Figure 1]b, [Figure 1]c, [Figure 1]d, [Figure 1]e, November 12, 2014] found diffused uniform ground-glass shadow in two lungs with no enlarged mediastinal lymph nodes.
As H2S is toxic to the yeast cell, it is diffused into the surrounding media: wine.
RS Pura (Jammu and Kashmir): Personnel from the Border Security Force (BSF) and other paramilitary force diffused live shells that fell in the villages near Jammu and Kashmir's RS Pura sector after ceasefire violation from Pakistan earlier today.

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