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Permeant

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Adjective

1. permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive

spreading or spread throughout

Example Sentences:
'armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations'
'the pervasive odor of garlic'
'an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Permeant

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adjective
that permeates

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Permeant

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v. per·me·at·ed, per·me·at·ing, per·me·ates
v.tr.
1. To pass through the openings or interstices of: liquid permeating a membrane.
2. To spread or flow throughout; pervade: "Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths" (Freeman J. Dyson). See Synonyms at imbue.
v.intr.
To spread through or penetrate something.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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