Pervade

  • 21pervade — verb spread or be present throughout; suffuse. Derivatives pervader noun pervasion noun Origin C17: from L. pervadere, from per throughout + vadere go …

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  • 22pervade — v. a. 1. Permeate, penetrate, pass through. 2. Overspread, fill, run through, be diffused through, be disseminated through, extend through, affect entirely …

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  • 23pervade — verb (T) if a feeling, idea, or smell pervades a place, it spreads through every part of it: After the war a spirit of hopelessness pervaded the country …

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  • 24pervade — verb the smell of floor polish pervaded the house Syn: permeate, spread through, fill, suffuse, be diffused through, imbue, penetrate, filter through, percolate through, infuse, perfuse, flow through; charge, steep, saturate, impregnate, inform …

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  • 25pervade — v permeate, saturate, diffuse, disseminate, honeycomb, spread throughout, extend throughout, fill, leave no void; penetrate, interpenetrate, inosculate, interosculate; osmose, blend, fuse, merge; percolate, filter through, seep through, soak… …

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  • 26pervade — per·vade …

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  • 27pervade — [pəˈveɪd] verb [T] formal to spread through the whole of something …

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  • 28pervade — per•vade [[t]pərˈveɪd[/t]] v. t. vad•ed, vad•ing to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air[/ex] • Etymology: 1645–55; < L pervādere to pass through =per per +vādere to go, walk per•vad′er, n. per•va′sion ˈveɪ ʒən n.… …

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  • 29pervade — /pəˈveɪd / (say puh vayd) verb (t) (pervaded, pervading) 1. to extend its presence, activities, influence, etc., throughout: spring pervaded the air. 2. to go, pass, or spread through. 3. Rare to go everywhere throughout (a place), as a person.… …

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