| 单词 | pervade |
| 释义 | pervade (once / 643 pages) v To pervade means to be present throughout, to exist in every part of. If you have too many cats, the horrible smell of cat pee will pervade your house. You can use pervade both for external things like smells and sickness, and for more internal things like feelings. For instance, you can say that a feeling of doom pervaded the army as they caught sight of the opposition’s superior forces. Despite efforts to prevent bullying, peer pressure and clique mentalities pervade the school environment. WORD FAMILYpervade: pervaded, pervades, pervading, pervasion, pervasive+/pervasion: pervasions/pervasive: pervasively, pervasiveness USAGE EXAMPLESExperts say worker abuse pervades the poultry industry, but the monitoring situation is likely to get worse under Donald Trump’s administration. The Guardian(Dec 22, 2016) We learned to fear and rely on them in equal measure, let them pervade our lives even as we struggled with their omnipresence. Wall Street Journal(Dec 18, 2016) This narrative holds that law enforcement is pervaded by racism, and that we are experiencing an epidemic of racially biased police shootings of black men. Wall Street Journal(Dec 17, 2016) v spread or diffuse through Syn|Hypo|Hyper diffuse, imbue, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, riddle spiritise, spiritize imbue with a spirit penetrate, perforate pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance |
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