Pervade
verb
To spread or exist in all parts of something.
The smell of fresh coffee pervaded the entire house.
Often appears as...
- pervade the atmosphere
- pervade the room
verb
To spread or exist in all parts of something.
The smell of fresh coffee pervaded the entire house.
Often appears as...
- pervade the atmosphere
- pervade the room
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Intangible Spread
Pervade often describes things you can't touch, like smells, feelings, or qualities.
Excitement pervaded the crowd as the concert began.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Visible
'Pervade' is used for things that cannot be seen but are felt or experienced.
A sense of unease pervaded the dark streets at night.
Pro Tip 3/3Gradual Influence
Pervade implies a gradual spreading that influences every part of something.
Traditional customs pervade every aspect of their daily life.
Pro Tip 1/3Intangible Spread
Pervade often describes things you can't touch, like smells, feelings, or qualities.
Excitement pervaded the crowd as the concert began.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Visible
'Pervade' is used for things that cannot be seen but are felt or experienced.
A sense of unease pervaded the dark streets at night.
Pro Tip 3/3Gradual Influence
Pervade implies a gradual spreading that influences every part of something.
Traditional customs pervade every aspect of their daily life.
Pro Tip 1/3Intangible Spread
Pervade often describes things you can't touch, like smells, feelings, or qualities.
Excitement pervaded the crowd as the concert began.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Visible
'Pervade' is used for things that cannot be seen but are felt or experienced.
A sense of unease pervaded the dark streets at night.
Pro Tip 3/3Gradual Influence
Pervade implies a gradual spreading that influences every part of something.
Traditional customs pervade every aspect of their daily life.
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Want to be happier? Stay...
that mind-wandering isn't just frequent, it's ubiquitous. It pervades basically everything that we do. In my talk today, I've told you a little bit about mind-wandering, a variable that I think turns out to be fairly important in the equation for happiness. My hope is that over time, by tracking people's
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Why should you read...
All these factions have deep histories that pervade the text, and Herbert also incorporates that sense of scale into the book’s structure. Each chapter begins with a quote from a future history book, recalling elements of the events that are about to unfold. The book also contains in-universe appendices
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Music and creativity in...
as musical harmony, such as the belief held by many Greek thinkers that each of the planets and stars created their own unique sound as they traveled through the cosmos, thrumming like an enormous guitar string light-years long. However, music pervaded more aspects of their lives than just education.
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The basics of the Higgs...
although many others contributed to the idea. It isn't a field, like where you grow corn, but a hypothetical, invisible kind of force field that pervades the whole universe." "Hmmmm, okay. If it pervades the whole universe, how come I've never seen it?
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E.O. Wilson: Advice to...
Technology is increasing at a comparable rate. Between them, the two already pervade, as most of you here seated realize, every dimension of human life. So swift is the velocity of the techno-scientific revolution,
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How radio telescopes...
neutral hydrogen. And when the very first stars and galaxies switched on, they ionized that hydrogen. So the universe went from neutral to ionized. That imprinted a signal all around us. Everywhere, it pervades us,
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Understanding Evil PIPE The...
it as an unseen force that pervades the entire world demons that lurk in the darkness for Christianity it could be the devil himself or is evil something that comes from inside us
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Joan Halifax: Compassion...
So our work, in a certain way, is to address this imago, this kind of archetype that has pervaded the psyche of our entire globe. Now we know from neuroscience that compassion has
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How Quantum Biology...
It's still speculative. But I believe it's built on solid science. I also think that in the coming decade or so, we're going to start to see that actually, it pervades life --
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The habits of happiness...
It is a deep sense of serenity and fulfillment. A state that actually pervades and underlies all emotional states, and all the joys and sorrows that can come one's way.
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Want to be happier? Stay...
that mind-wandering isn't just frequent, it's ubiquitous. It pervades basically everything that we do. In my talk today, I've told you a little bit about mind-wandering, a variable that I think turns out to be fairly important in the equation for happiness. My hope is that over time, by tracking people's
Video examples
Why should you read...
All these factions have deep histories that pervade the text, and Herbert also incorporates that sense of scale into the book’s structure. Each chapter begins with a quote from a future history book, recalling elements of the events that are about to unfold. The book also contains in-universe appendices
Video examples
Music and creativity in...
as musical harmony, such as the belief held by many Greek thinkers that each of the planets and stars created their own unique sound as they traveled through the cosmos, thrumming like an enormous guitar string light-years long. However, music pervaded more aspects of their lives than just education.
Video examples
The basics of the Higgs...
although many others contributed to the idea. It isn't a field, like where you grow corn, but a hypothetical, invisible kind of force field that pervades the whole universe." "Hmmmm, okay. If it pervades the whole universe, how come I've never seen it?
Video examples
E.O. Wilson: Advice to...
Technology is increasing at a comparable rate. Between them, the two already pervade, as most of you here seated realize, every dimension of human life. So swift is the velocity of the techno-scientific revolution,
Video examples
How radio telescopes...
neutral hydrogen. And when the very first stars and galaxies switched on, they ionized that hydrogen. So the universe went from neutral to ionized. That imprinted a signal all around us. Everywhere, it pervades us,
Video examples
Understanding Evil PIPE The...
it as an unseen force that pervades the entire world demons that lurk in the darkness for Christianity it could be the devil himself or is evil something that comes from inside us
Video examples
Joan Halifax: Compassion...
So our work, in a certain way, is to address this imago, this kind of archetype that has pervaded the psyche of our entire globe. Now we know from neuroscience that compassion has
Video examples
How Quantum Biology...
It's still speculative. But I believe it's built on solid science. I also think that in the coming decade or so, we're going to start to see that actually, it pervades life --
Video examples
The habits of happiness...
It is a deep sense of serenity and fulfillment. A state that actually pervades and underlies all emotional states, and all the joys and sorrows that can come one's way.
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Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
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Fiona McIntosh
English Author
For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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Kim Jong-un
North Korean Leader
We should ensure that the people-first principle runs through the whole of Party work as appropriate for its nature as a motherly party to make the climate of respecting, loving and depending on them pervade it and Party work focus on improving their living standards.
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Pope John Paul II
Polish Saint
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
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Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.
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Kate DiCamillo
American Author
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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James Broughton
American Director
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
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Norman Borlaug
American Scientist
One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.
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James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Jimmy Lai
Chinese Businessman
I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.
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Samuel Adams
American Revolutionary
The love of power, like the love of money, increases with the possession of it; and we know in what ruin these baneful passions have involved human societies in all ages when they have been let loose and suffered to rage uncontrolled - There is no restraint like the pervading eye of the virtuous citizens.
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Fiona McIntosh
English Author
For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.
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Kim Jong-un
North Korean Leader
We should ensure that the people-first principle runs through the whole of Party work as appropriate for its nature as a motherly party to make the climate of respecting, loving and depending on them pervade it and Party work focus on improving their living standards.
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Pope John Paul II
Polish Saint
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
Quote examples
Benjamin Franklin
American Politician
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: 'This is my country.
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Kate DiCamillo
American Author
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
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James Broughton
American Director
My earliest poems sing of the absolute necessity of allowing love to invade and pervade one's life. That can make the miracle happen in reality. Try it.
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Norman Borlaug
American Scientist
One of the greatest threats to mankind today is that the world may be choked by an explosively pervading but well camouflaged bureaucracy.
Quote examples
James Russell Lowell
American Poet
Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.
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Jimmy Lai
Chinese Businessman
I think gossip and scandal is something from Western culture that has pervaded the rest of the world.
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