Meanings
present singular third person pervades · participle present pervading · participle past pervaded · past pervaded
- transitiveTo be in every part of; to spread through; to permeate.
Cruel wars pervade history.
3 more examples
"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, →OCLCThe 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, →OCLCEven 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
Synonyms & antonyms
verbspread or diffuse through
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinpervādō
- Latinpervādō
- Englishpervade
Learned borrowing from Latin pervādō.
More words from Latin
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian прониквам, разпространявам се
- прониквам (pronikvam)to be in every part of
- разпространявам се (razprostranjavam se)to be in every part of
Catalan impregnar
- impregnarto be in every part of
Chinese Mandarin 貫穿 /贯穿, 充斥
- 貫穿 /贯穿 (guànchuān)to be in every part of
- 充斥 (chōngchì)to be in every part of
Czech procházet skrz
- procházet skrzto be in every part of
Dutch doordringen
- doordringento be in every part of
Finnish levitä
- levitäto be in every part of
French saturer, pénétrer
- saturerto be in every part of
- pénétrerto be in every part of
- envahirto be in every part of
German durchziehen
- durchziehento be in every part of
Hungarian áthat, átjár
- áthatto be in every part of
- átjárto be in every part of
Italian pervadere
- pervadereto be in every part of
Latin pervado
- pervadoto be in every part of
Lithuanian persmelkti
- persmelktito be in every part of
Portuguese permear
- permearto be in every part of
Romanian pătrunde, invada
- pătrundeto be in every part of
- invadato be in every part of
Russian пропитывать, наполня́ть
- пропитывать (propityvatʹ)to be in every part of
- наполня́ть (napolnjátʹ)to be in every part of
- проходи́ть (proxodítʹ)to be in every part of
Spanish permear, impregnar
- permearto be in every part of
- impregnarto be in every part of
- saturarto be in every part of
- pervadirto be in every part of
Swedish genomsyra
- genomsyrato be in every part of
Ukrainian проникати, пронизувати
- проникати (pronykaty)to be in every part of
- пронизувати (pronyzuvaty)to be in every part of
Rhymes & wordplay
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pervade. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pervade
“pervade.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/pervade. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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