different between pervade vs interpenetrate

English

Etymology

From Latin pervado.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??(?)?ve?d/, /p??ve?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /p??ve?d/
• Rhymes: -e?d

Verb

pervade (third-person singular simple present pervades, present participle pervading, simple past and past participle pervaded)

1. (transitive) To be in every part of; to spread through.

   • "I ought to arise and go forth with timbrels and with dances; but, do you know, I am not inclined to revels? There has been a little—just a very little bit too much festivity so far …. Not that I don't adore dinners and gossip and dances; not that I do not love to pervade bright and glittering places. […]"

   • The animals were thoroughly frightened. It seemed to them as though Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers.

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• deprave, repaved

Italian

Verb

pervade

1. third-person singular present indicative of pervadere

Anagrams

• perdeva, preveda

Latin

Verb

perv?de

1. second-person singular present active imperative of perv?d?

English

Etymology

inter- +? penetrate

Verb

interpenetrate (third-person singular simple present interpenetrates, present participle interpenetrating, simple past and past participle interpenetrated)

1. To penetrate mutually or reciprocally.
2. To permeate or pervade.

Italian

Verb

interpenetrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of interpenetrare
2. second-person plural imperative of interpenetrare

Participle

interpenetrate

1. feminine plural of the past participle of interpenetrare