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pervade

UK/pɜː(ɹ)ˈveɪd/US/pɚˈveɪd/
verbC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,138 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: pervades, pervaded, pervading

To pervade is to spread through and be felt everywhere. A smell that pervades the house.

It is used of smells, moods and attitudes rather than of anything solid. Anything that pervades a place is noticed by visitors and not by anybody living there.

Definitions of pervade

  1. 1verbpervadeTo spread through and be felt everywhere.C1

    “A sense of waiting seemed to pervade the whole building.”

pervade is a spreading.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    pervādō

  2. English, today

    pervade

Learned borrowing from Latin pervādō.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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pervade in the wild

  • Self-management technologies are expected to pervade the next generation of network management systems.

    Self-management (computer science)

  • The term cultural baggage refers to the tendency for one's culture to pervade thinking, speech, and behavior without one being aware of this pervasion.

    Cultural baggage

  • The same mood pervades the well-known etching The Frugal Repast which depicts a blind man and a sighted woman, both emaciated, seated at a nearly bare table.

    Picasso's Blue Period

  • Themes of loneliness, poverty and despair pervade the works as well.

    Picasso's Blue Period

  • A fascination with popular culture and media continues to pervade Voice Farm's creative projects, including videos on their website and YouTube channel.

    Voice Farm

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the pervādō family

pervasive

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