0 past simple and past participle of pervade
1 When qualities, characteristics, or smells pervade a place or thing, they spread through it and are present in every part of it:
At issue was his opposition to disarmament, a goal which pervaded citizenship culture in many of its diverse interwar forms.
Along with considerable economic improvement and educational advance, an underlying sense of unease pervaded the community and its view of the future.
However, inflation targeting was the obvious alternative, given the disenchantment with money targeting that had pervaded many countries in the mid-1980s.
These religious and political value suppliers sought to instil horizontal co-operation and solidarity in a social fabric thoroughly pervaded by clientelism.
Real data is often pervaded with uncertainty so that devising techniques intended to induce knowledge in the presence of uncertainty seems entirely advisable.
During the 1990s the language of customers, customer care and customer service also pervaded a series of 'culture change' programmes across the public sector.
Contemporary accounts speak frequently of wild rumors and inexplicable speculations which seem to have pervaded this incident.
A reassuring air of comfort and solidity pervaded, where the emphasis was on tradition rather than fashion.
