pervade
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
pervade (third-person singular simple present pervades, present participle pervading, simple past and past participle pervaded)
- (transitive) To be in every part of; to spread through.
- Cruel wars pervade history.
- 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set (Project Gutenberg; EBook #14852), New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, published 1 February 2005 (Project Gutenberg version), OCLC 24962326:
- "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"
- 1945 August 17, George Orwell, chapter 7, in Animal Farm: A Fairy Story, London: Secker & Warburg, OCLC 3655473:
- The animals were thoroughly frightened. It seemed to them as though Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers.
Translations
to be in every part of
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Italian
Verb
pervade
- third-person singular present indicative of pervadere
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
pervāde
- second-person singular present active imperative of pervādō
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