PERVADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pervade mean? 

• PERVADE (verb)
  The verb PERVADE has 1 sense:

1. spread or diffuse through

  Familiarity information: PERVADE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PERVADE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they pervade    ... he / she / it pervades   
Past simple: pervaded   
Past participle: pervaded   
-ing form: pervading   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Spread or diffuse through

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

diffuse; imbue; interpenetrate; penetrate; permeate; pervade; riddle

Context example:

His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks

Hypernyms (to "pervade" is one way to...):

penetrate; perforate (pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "pervade"):

spiritise; spiritize (imbue with a spirit)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

pervasion (the process of permeating or infusing something with a substance)

pervasive (spreading or spread throughout)

 Context examples 

The old unhappy feeling pervaded my life.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

At last, one morning, the propeller was quiet, and the Narwhal was pervaded with an atmosphere of excitement.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

A flush of angry blood pervaded Bill's face.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

The man pervades London, and no one has heard of him.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To May's great delight, Mr. Laurence not only bought the vases, but pervaded the hall with one under each arm.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Colors and radiances surrounded him and bathed him and pervaded him.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A light shone through the keyhole and from under the door; a profound stillness pervaded the vicinity.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It had sprung from the perch and was circling slowly round the Queen's Hall with a dry, leathery flapping of its ten-foot wings, while a putrid and insidious odor pervaded the room.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In fact, though this strength pervaded every action of his, it seemed but the advertisement of a greater strength that lurked within, that lay dormant and no more than stirred from time to time, but which might arouse, at any moment, terrible and compelling, like the rage of a lion or the wrath of a storm.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But on the day that was to fulfil my wishes and my destiny, she was melancholy, and a presentiment of evil pervaded her; and perhaps also she thought of the dreadful secret which I had promised to reveal to her on the following day.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)