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permeating

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per·me·ate  (pûrm-t)
v. per·me·at·ed, per·me·at·ing, per·me·ates
v.tr.
1. To spread or flow throughout; pervade: "Our thinking is permeated by our historical myths" (Freeman J. Dyson). See Synonyms at charge.
2. To pass through the openings or interstices of: liquid permeating a membrane.
v.intr.
To spread through or penetrate something.
[Latin permere, permet-, to penetrate : per-, through; see per- + mere, to pass; see mei-1 in Indo-European roots.]
perme·ant (-nt), perme·ative (-tv) adj.
perme·ation n.
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Adj.1.permeating - spreading or spread throughout; "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"
permeant, permeative, pervasive
distributive - serving to distribute or allot or disperse


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Through counter currents of the heavy stench of meat eaters he traced the trail of Bara; the sweet and cloying stink of Horta, the boar, could not drown his quarry's scent--the permeating, mellow musk of the deer's foot.
Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
Through all the apparitions that preceded you and that compose the parts of you, you rose gibbering from the evolutionary mire, and gibbering you will pass on, interfusing, permeating the procession of apparitions that will succeed you.
John Barleycorn by London, Jack View in context
When the preservative force of Christianity permeating all classes of society shall have put life into the new order of things, there will be an end of sterile disputes about doctrine.
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