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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REPLACEMENT

(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”


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