Pervade

[pə'veɪd] or [pɚ'ved]

Definition

(v. t.) To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.

(v. t.) To pass or spread through the whole extent of; to be diffused throughout.

Typist: Vivienne

Synonyms and Synonymous

v. a. [1]. Permeate, penetrate, pass through.[2]. Overspread, fill, run through, be diffused through, be disseminated through.

Typist: Rosa

Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Permeate, fill, saturate, color, tinge, fill, diffuse

ANT:Touch, affect

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Definition

v.t. to go through or penetrate: to spread all over.—n. Pervā′sion.—adj. Pervā′sive tending or having power to pervade.

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Examples

All day, she seemed to pervade the whole house. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Strange to say, that quiet influence which was inseparable in my mind from Agnes, seemed to pervade even the city where she dwelt. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
The passage was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square basement of the Manor House. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
A vague, very simple Christianity pervaded the illiterate peasant life, mixed with much superstition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
The lives of both Philip and his son were pervaded by the personality of a restless and evil woman, Olympias, the mother of Alexander. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Pervaded our Department--without an appointment--and said he wanted to know! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
The silence of night pervaded the whole heath except in one direction; and that was towards Mistover. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
The spirit of Agnes so pervaded all we thought, and said, and did, in that time of sorrow, that I assume I may refer the project to her influence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Wemmick pervaded it throughout, but never appeared in it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
The influence pervaded the spirit in which they returned to the previous question. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
While a leisurely atmosphere pervades the town, few idlers are seen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
Veneering pervades the legislative lobbies, intent upon entrapping his fellow-legislators to dinner. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
There is a good deal of ingenuity and even originality in this work, and a most enlightened spirit pervades it. Plato. The Republic.
The man pervades London, and no one has heard of him. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
The error which pervades astronomy also pervades harmonics. Plato. The Republic.
I asked in a whisper, half awed by the deep pervading hush. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
I affirm the all-pervading intelligence of that capacity. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
Miss Shepherd being the one pervading theme and vision of my life, how do I ever come to break with her? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Now, by some queer process of association, that golden light became for him the pervading illumination in which she lived. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
To Ada and to me, that above all appeared the pervading influence. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Eugene is also in attendance, with a pervading air upon him of having presupposed the ceremony to be a funeral, and of being disappointed. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Newton's hypothesis that light is due to particles emitted by all luminous bodies yielded, at least for the time, to the theory of light vibrations in an ether pervading all space. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.

Typist: Sonia