pervade

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
15
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/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

  1. (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.”

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pervādō.

Anagrams of pervade

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