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AppleFanboy Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary
Diffuse an appeal?
Is it correct to use 'diffuse an appeal' meaning giving off one's charm?
Diffuse the anger means you produce the feeling of anger.
But how about diffuse the charm or appeal?
Diffuse the anger means you produce the feeling of anger.
But how about diffuse the charm or appeal?
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No, that doesn't work.
- No, that doesn't work.
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AppleFanboy,
I've noticed that you've been asking a lot of questions about word usage lately. I think it would help if you familiarized yourself with fraze.it. On that site you can test out different combinations of words to see how often they're used. COCA is another corpus like that, more thorough, but more difficult to use.
CJ
I've noticed that you've been asking a lot of questions about word usage lately. I think it would help if you familiarized yourself with fraze.it. On that site you can test out different combinations of words to see how often they're used. COCA is another corpus like that, more thorough, but more difficult to use.
CJ
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CalifJimmore difficult to use.Too right. COCA has one of the most confusing and badly designed interfaces I have ever seen.
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AppleFanboyDiffuse the anger means you produce the feeling of anger.Does it? I have never heard that use. (I do know that people often confuse "diffuse" and "defuse", but "defuse" wouldn't mean that either, rather the opposite.)
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