pervade

English

Etymology

From Latin pervado.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /pɜː(ɹ)ˈveɪd/, /pəˈveɪd/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /pɚˈveɪd/
• Rhymes: -eɪd

Verb

pervade (third-person singular simple present pervades, present participle pervading, simple past and past participle pervaded)

1. (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: A Fairy Story, 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.

Related terms

► English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weh₂dʰ-‎ (0 c, 11 e)

Translations

to be in every part of

• Czech: procházet skrz
• Dutch: doordringen (nl)
• Finnish: levitä (fi)
• French: saturer (fr), pénétrer (fr), envahir (fr)
• German: durchziehen (de)
• Hungarian: áthat (hu), átjár (hu)
• Italian: pervadere (it)

• Latin: pervado
• Occitan: penetrar, envasir (oc)
• Portuguese: permear (pt)
• Romanian: pătrunde (ro)
• Russian: пропитывать (ru) (propityvatʹ), наполня́ть (ru) (napolnjátʹ), проходи́ть (ru) (proxodítʹ)
• Spanish: permear (es)
• Swedish: genomsyra (sv)

Anagrams

• deprave, repaved

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Italian

Verb

pervade

1. third-person singular present indicative of pervadere

Anagrams

• perdeva, preveda

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Latin

Verb

pervāde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pervādō