pervade en · VERB
Pronunciation
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pervādō.
Meanings
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(transitive) To be in every part of; to spread through; to permeate.
Even at the busiest periods, an air of quiet orderliness pervades the hall, and the first impression gained by the traveller is one of efficiency, neatness and cleanliness.
1951 October, H. A. Vallance, “Across Denmark by Lyntog”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:Cruel wars pervade history.
"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.[…]"
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC: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.
1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →OCLC:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| pervading | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| pervaded | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| pervaded | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| pervades | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Deriveds
pervasiveness · pervader · all-pervading · pervasive
Translations (32)
oc penetrar (to be in every part of) · es pervadir (to be in every part of) · it pervadere (to be in every part of) · ru пропитывать (to be in every part of) · fr saturer (to be in every part of) · la pervado (to be in every part of) · hu átjár (to be in every part of) · oc envasir (to be in every part of) · lt persmelkti (to be in every part of) · uk пронизувати (to be in every part of) · es permear (to be in every part of) · nl doordringen (to be in every part of) · ro invada (to be in every part of) · es saturar (to be in every part of) · fi levitä (to be in every part of) · ru наполня́ть (to be in every part of) · bg прониквам (to be in every part of) · fr envahir (to be in every part of) · hu áthat (to be in every part of) · pt permear (to be in every part of) · cs procházet skrz (to be in every part of) · ru проходи́ть (to be in every part of) · ca impregnar (to be in every part of) · ro pătrunde (to be in every part of) · cmn 充斥 (to be in every part of) · fr pénétrer (to be in every part of) · de durchziehen (to be in every part of) · bg разпространявам се (to be in every part of) · es impregnar (to be in every part of) · sv genomsyra (to be in every part of) · uk проникати (to be in every part of) · cmn 貫穿 /贯穿 (to be in every part of)