pervade
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 15
- Letters
- 7
/pɜː(ɹ)ˈveɪd/
(UK)
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/pɜː(ɹ)ˈveɪd/ (UK) · /pəˈveɪd/ (UK) · /pɚˈveɪd/ (US)
Definition of pervade
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
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(transitive)To be in every part of; to spread through; to permeate.
“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.[…]"”
“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.”
“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.”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pervādō.
Words you can make from pervade
93 playable · top: DEPRAVE (13 pts)
Best play deprave 13 points7-letter words
1 word6-letter words
7 words5-letter words
18 words4-letter words
31 words- PAVE 9 pts
- PERV 9 pts
- VAPE 9 pts
- VEEP 9 pts
- DEVA 8 pts
- APED 7 pts
- AVER 7 pts
- DEEP 7 pts
- EAVE 7 pts
- EVER 7 pts
- PARD 7 pts
- PEED 7 pts
- RAVE 7 pts
- VEER 7 pts
- VERA 7 pts
- APER 6 pts
- PARE 6 pts
- PEAR 6 pts
- PEER 6 pts
- PERE 6 pts
- PREE 6 pts
- RAPE 6 pts
- REAP 6 pts
- DARE 5 pts
- DEAR 5 pts
- DEER 5 pts
- DERE 5 pts
- DREE 5 pts
- READ 5 pts
- REDE 5 pts
- REED 5 pts
3-letter words
25 words2-letter words
10 wordsHooks
3 extensions · 3 back
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