pervade

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin pervādō.

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; permeate.

   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. […]"

   • 1943 November – 1944 February (date written; published 1945 August 17), George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], Animal Farm […], London: Secker & Warburg, published May 1962, →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.

   • 1951 October, H. A. Vallance, “Across Denmark by Lyntog”, in Railway Magazine, page 658:

     Even 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.

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

• Bulgarian: прониквам (bg) (pronikvam), разпространявам се (razprostranjavam se)
• Catalan: impregnar (ca)
• 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
• Lithuanian: persmelkti
• Occitan: penetrar (oc), envasir (oc)
• Portuguese: permear (pt)
• Romanian: pătrunde (ro), invada (ro)
• Russian: пропитывать (ru) (propityvatʹ), наполня́ть (ru) (napolnjátʹ), проходи́ть (ru) (proxodítʹ)
• Spanish: permear (es), impregnar (es), saturar (es)
• Swedish: genomsyra (sv)
• Ukrainian: проникати (pronykaty), пронизувати (pronyzuvaty)

Anagrams

• deprave, repaved

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

pervade

1. third-person singular present indicative of pervadere

Anagrams

• perdeva, preveda

Latin

Verb

pervāde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of pervādō