SYNONYMS AND RELATED EXPRESSIONS
permeate
verb
To spread throughout something or pass through its openings.
Local English device voice, when available. This is not a recorded dictionary pronunciation.
Spread through
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Usage distinction
Return to topPermeate can describe physical passage or an influence spreading through a group or work.
CHECK THE MEANING IN CONTEXT
See permeate in use
The smell of fresh bread began to permeate the entire house.
Colored water began to permeate a porous sponge used to demonstrate a wet section of the model city's imagined canal bank.
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