to perfume

Examples

• All

• Nutmeg and cinnamon perfume the air as she ground the spices with a pestle.

• In Utica, above the ballroom in the tower, the nursery waited, perfumed, dotted with bright spots of flowers delivered every three days.

  Fiction book (1993)

• Spices and teas perfumed the store, while gas lamps provided light.

  Fiction book (1994)

• Incense burned in braziers to perfume the air and ward off night-flying insects.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Nutmeg and cinnamon perfumed the air as she ground the spices with a pestle.

  Fiction book (2002)

• There she had fought for air, which came in stuffy gasps, perfumed with candles, incense, and furniture polish.

  Fiction book (1998)

• During the summer months, roses and other flowers perfume the air surrounding Chancellor House.

• The great bells sang in the tower, and sweet Castilian roses perfume the sunny courtyard of the chapel.

Synonyms

S

to scent

vsto perfume

37 3.3

To add a smell to something, usually a pleasant one

is used to fill air or spaces with a pleasant smell

I

to incense

vsto perfume

1 7.4

To burn a scented material to make a place smell nice, often in a ceremony

is broader, not limited to one material or ritual use

A

to aromatize

vsto perfume

7.2

Fill the air with a pleasant smell from herbs or oils

focuses on filling the air or a place rather than objects

P

to pomander

vsto perfume

• Archaic

9.9

To make clothes or a room smell nice using a small scented ball

is more general, focusing on filling places or air with pleasant smell

Compounds

W

whiff of perfume

1 3.0

A short soft smell of perfume in the air

How Fragrant

to pervade

22 6.7

to perfume

3 3.9

to tinge

1 4.8

Surface Forms

Etymology