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:
For a time, at least, psychical research managed to keep itself above the fraud that pervaded the popular occult.
By concentrating care on the physical body, the warehousing model's view of residents' helplessness pervaded their whole life and could destroy the person.
As an element of the wider culture, it pervaded the whole of life, and made itself available for creative adaptation to a host of circumstances.
The history of medical technology is a political history because it is pervaded by states.
The image of disease pervaded the sociological texts of the time.
But does this prove a specific link with hunting, or only that hunting metaphors pervaded literary language in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
In actual fact, the article seems to be pervaded by a peculiar irrationalistic, and even mystical, attitude.
A reassuring air of comfort and solidity pervaded, where the emphasis was on tradition rather than fashion.
