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permeate

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1. permeate - Noun

2. permeate - Verb

Meaning

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.

To enter and spread through; to pervade.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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There is not one but many silences, and they are an integral part of the strategies that underlie and permeate discourses. Michel Foucault

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it. Victor Hugo

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime. Alma Gluck

I'm swimming in your cadences that you permeate my very language. David Levithan

I feel certain that if, in our homes, parents will read from the Book of Mormon prayerfully and regularly, both by themselves and with their children, the spirit of that great book will come to permeate our homes and all who dwell therein. Ezra Taft Benson

When our mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters are considered both different and inferior in the eyes of the God we worship, this belief tends to permeate society and everyone suffers. Jimmy Carter

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