pervade
English
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin pervādō.
Pronunciation
edit- (UK) IPA(key): , /pɜː(ɹ)ˈveɪd/, /pəˈveɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (US) IPA(key): , /pɚˈveɪd/
Audio (General American): (file)
- Rhymes: , -eɪd
Verb
editpervade (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; permeate.
- Cruel wars pervade history.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- "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. […]"
- 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:
- 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.
- 1951 October, H. A. Vallance, “Across Denmark by Lyntog”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:
- 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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editto be in every part of
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