PERMEATING
permeant, permeating, permeative, pervasive
(adjective) 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”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
permeating
present participle of permeate
Anagrams
• impregnate, rimegepant
Source: Wiktionary
PERMEATE
Per"me*ate, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Permeated; p. pr. & vb. n. Permeating.] Etym: [L. permeatus, p.p. of permeare to permeate; per + meare to go, pass.]
1. To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand. Woodward.
2. To enter and spread through; to pervade. God was conceived to be diffused throughout the whole world, to permeate and pervade all things. Cudworth.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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