pervade

Learned borrowing from Latin pervādō.

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

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

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:

     "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:

     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.

• pervasive
• pervasiveness

• deprave, repaved

• IPA^(key): /perˈva.de/
• Rhymes: -ade
• Hyphenation: per‧và‧de

pervade

1. third-person singular present indicative of pervadere

• perdeva, preveda

pervāde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pervādō