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Permeating

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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.

Permeating

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verb
1. 
to penetrate or pervade (a substance, area, etc)
a lovely smell permeated the room
2. 
to pass through or cause to pass through by osmosis or diffusion
to permeate a membrane

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Permeating

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈpermeˌated or ˈpermeˌating
1. 
to pass into or through and affect every part of; penetrate and spread through
ink permeates blotting paper; a society that is permeated with idealism
verb intransitive
2. 
to spread or diffuse; penetrate
with through or among

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

Permeating

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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.

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