pervade
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin pervādō.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /pɜː(ɹ)ˈveɪd/, /pəˈveɪd/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US) IPA(key): /pɚˈveɪd/
- Rhymes: -eɪd
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 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter II, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 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 [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 7, in Animal Farm […], 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.
Derived terms
- pervasive
- pervasiveness
Related terms
English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₂dʰ- (0 c, 12 e)
Translations
to be in every part of
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Anagrams
- deprave, repaved
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /perˈva.de/
- Rhymes: -ade
- Hyphenation: per‧và‧de
Verb
pervade
- third-person singular present indicative of pervadere
Anagrams
- perdeva, preveda
Latin
Verb
pervāde
- second-person singular present active imperative of pervādō