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   Per·vade

   /pərˈvād/

   

   verb

   • 1. (especially of a smell) spread through and be perceived in every part of: "a smell of stale cabbage pervaded the air"
   • ▪ (of an influence, feeling, or quality) be present and apparent throughout: "the sense of crisis that pervaded Europe in the 1930s"

   Word Origin mid 17th century (also in the sense ‘traverse’): from Latin pervadere, from per- ‘throughout’ + vadere ‘go’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. pervader noun

   Scrabble Points: 13

   • P

     3

   • E

     1

   • R

     1

   • V

     4

   • A

     1

   • D

     2

   • E

     1

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