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permeate

verb

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To spread throughout something or pass through its openings.

The smell of fresh bread began to permeate the entire house.
Dictionary practice example.
Colored water began to permeate a porous sponge used to demonstrate a wet section of the model city's imagined canal bank.
From A Pattern Spread Across a Place.
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