You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.
permeation, pervasion, suffusion
(noun) the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
suffusion (countable and uncountable, plural suffusions)
(countable) The act of pouring a liquid over or soaking something.
(countable) coat, coating, film, plating.
(uncountable) The state of being wet.
(uncountable) The state of becoming red on the surface.
• diffusion
Source: Wiktionary
Suf*fu"sion, n. Etym: [L. suffusio: cf. F. suffusion.]
1. The act or process of suffusing, or state of being suffused; an overspreading. To those that have the jaundice, or like suffusion of eyes, objects appear of that color. Ray.
2. That with which a thing is suffused.
3. (Zoöl.)
Definition: A blending of one color into another; the spreading of one color over another, as on the feathers of birds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
20 November 2024
(noun) an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes
You can overdose on coffee if you drink about 30 cups in a brief period to get close to a lethal dosage of caffeine.