pervade
pronunciation
How to pronounce pervade in British English:
UK [pəˈveɪd]
How to pronounce pervade in American English:
US [pərˈveɪd]
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- Verb:
- spread or diffuse through
Word Origin
- pervade (v.)
- 1650s, from Latin pervadere "spread or go through," from per- "through" + vadere "to go" (see vamoose). Related: Pervaded; pervading.
Example
- 1. Be prepared for the scent of strong meat to pervade everything even overwhelming the cigarette smoke that clouds every bar or eatery on the mainland .
- 2. Although the big bang happened long ago , it 's still with us because photons from the universe 's hot birth pervade space and constitute the cosmic microwave background ( shown ) .
- 3. The universe is expanding , being thrust apart by some mysterious " dark energy " , minute traces of which pervade all space .
- 4. New findings show that the giant clouds of dust and gas that pervade the universe , out of which form all of the stars and other assorted celestial bodies , depend on magnetism to condense .
- 5. The higgs boson , to give the less exalted moniker preferred by scientists , is the hypothetical manifestation of the higgs field , which is thought to pervade all space and whose interactions with other elementary particles give them mass .