Permeated

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Permeate \Per"me*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Permeated}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Permeating}.] [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.
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     2. To enter and spread through; to pervade; as, after the
        first setback, the team became permeated with pessimism.
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              God was conceived to be diffused throughout the
              whole world, to permeate and pervade all things.
                                                    --Cudworth.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  permeated \permeated\ adj.
     p. p. of {permeate}; as, Her poems are permeated with sorrow.
     [WordNet 1.5] permeating

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  permeated
       adj : occurring throughout; "her poems are permeated with sorrow"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "permeated":
     awash, bathed, crawling, creeping, deluged, dipped, drenched,
     dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, flooded,
     honeycombed, immersed, inundated, macerated, oozing, overflowed,
     saturated, seeping, shot through, soaked, soaking, soaking wet,
     soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped,
     submerged, submersed, swamped, swarming, teeming, waterlogged,
     watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet