Permeate

Definitions: Permeate

Permeate

Verb

1. Spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration".

2. Pass through; "Water permeates sand easily".

3. Penetrate mutually or be interlocked; "The territories of two married people interpenetrate a lot".

Date "permeate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Note: Permeate \Per"me*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Permeated; present participle verb or noun Permeating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Permeate

Synonyms: diffuse (v), filter (v), imbue (v), interpenetrate (v), percolate (v), pervade (v), sink in (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Interposition	Verb: lie between, come between, get between; intervene, slide in, interpenetrate, permeate.
Passage	Verb: pass, pass through; perforate; (hole); penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground.
Presence	Fill, pervade, permeate; be diffused, be disseminated, be through; over spread, overrun; run through; meet one at every turn.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Permeate

English words defined with "permeate": drench ♦ imbrue, Interfuse ♦ leach ♦ percolate ♦ Transpierce. (references)

Specialty definitions using "permeate": FILLING-MACHINE OPERATOR ♦ Leukemic Infiltration. (references)

Play	Caption
	Bubbles; bubble; glug; glugging; bleed; bubble; charge; drain; drip; exude; filter; filtrate; impregnate; leach; ooze; pass through; penetrate; perk; permeate; pervade; saturate; strain; sweat; transfuse; transude; weep.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Economic History	Norway	Radio and television permeate the country, and advertising on them is quite popular. (references)
	Kenya	Meanwhile, corruption continues to permeate most sectors. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Permeate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 63.95% of the time. "Permeate" is used about 86 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	63.95%	55	45,713
Lexical Verb (base form)	34.88%	30	63,341
Adjective (general or positive)	1.16%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	86	N/A

Expression using "permeate": permeate among. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "permeate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përshkoj (cover, do, penetrate, percolate, pervade, traverse, voyage), përhapem (dilate, enlarge, expatiate, extend, get about, get along, outspread, overreach, overspread, pervade, proliferate, Ravel, reach, spill out, spread, transpire), përhap (bruit, delate, develop, diffuse, dilate, disseminate, distribute, introduce, let out, promulgate, propagate, radiate, slop, spread, start, Ted, transmit), depërtoj (break through, elbow, filter, infiltrate, needle, penetrate, perforate, seep, soak, thread, worm). (various references)

Arabic		‏نفذ (act, activate, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, commit, computerize, do, effect, effectuate, enforce, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, penetrate, percolate, perform, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, realize, transfix, traverse), ‏تقلقل, ‏تغلغل (penetrate, penetration, permeation), ‏إنتشر (be widespread, catch on, circulate, deploy, diffuse, emit, extend, fall out, fan, flow, mushroom, outspread, percolate, pervade, prevail, propagate, radiate, reproduce, resound, run, send forth, suffuse, swarm, transpire, unfold, unroll), ‏إخترق (break through, cleave, penetrate, perforate, pierce, sink, transfuse). (various references)

Bulgarian		разпространявам се из (infiltrate, pervade), овладявам (dominate, govern, invade, master, obsess, overcome, overmaster, overpower, possess, pull together), обземам (fall, obsess, overtake, settle down), насищам (glut, imbue, impregnate, penetrate, satiate, saturate, slake), просмуквам се (leak, ooze, pervade, seep, sink in, strike, transude), прониквам в (enter, penetrate, tap, transfuse). (various references)

Chinese		沉浸 (immerse), 渗入 (infiltrate, Infiltrated, Infiltrating, Permeated, Permeating). (various references)

Czech		prostoupit (pervade), pronikat. (various references)

Danish		permeat. (various references)

Dutch		permeaat. (various references)

Farsi		نفوذکردن (Infiltrate, Leak, Percolate, Pervade, Transpire), نشت کردن , سرایت کردن (Infect, Transmit). (various references)

Finnish		permeaatti. (various references)

French		perméat, pénétrer dans (penetrate), pénétrer (penetrate, percolate, perforate), se répandre (percolate), se pénétrer dans (pervade), filtrer � travers. (various references)

German		durchdringen (come through, get through, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, inform, penetrate, penetration, pervade, Pierce, thrill, to pervade, to soak, transfuse). (various references)

Greek		διεισδύω (infiltrate, penetrate, to trickle through), διήθημα (filtrate, infiltrate), διαπερώ (penetrate, pervade), διαχύνομαι (pervade), διαχωρώ. (various references)

Hebrew		לפעפע (bubble, diffuse, infiltrate, pervade, suffuse), לחלחל (ooze, percolate, seep, seepage), לח�"ור (bore, enter, get home, get through, infiltrate, inroad, penetrate). (various references)

Hungarian		permeátum. (various references)

Indonesian		merembes (infiltrate, leak, ooze out, squish), menyerap (porous). (various references)

Italian		permeato, permeare (imbue), penetrare (enter, intrusion, irruption, penetrate, penetrate into, Pierce, pierce into, seep into, sink, sink in, soak, soak in, steal into, strike), diffondersi (break, circulate, diffuse, expatiate, go the round, radiate, waft). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"みる (to permeate, to pierce). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		しみ�"む (to permeate, to soak into), しみる (to be frozen over, to be infected, to be steeped, to congeal, to freeze, to penetrate, to permeate, to pierce, to soak in). (various references)

Manx		dy gholl er fud (to permeate). (various references)

Pig Latin		ermeatepay

Portuguese		permeato, permear (shot), permeação (permeation), penetrar (break, embellish, fathom, get in, infiltrate, intrude, penetrate, perforate, reach, stick, strike through, transpierce), fazer passar pelo meio, atravessar (cross, divided, Dixie, fish, go through, intersect, jab, overpass, pass, pass over, penetrate, perambulate, pervade, Pierce, roam, spit, survive, thrust, transfix, travel, traverse, trespass). (various references)

Romanian		pãtrunde în (dip into, enter, lodge in, penetrate into, permeate among, pervade), pãtrunde (come in, filter, interpenetrate, penetrate, perceive, percolate, perforate, pervade, see into, sink, touch, understand), trece prin (course, draw, experience, foot, get through, go through, pass through, perambulate, run, squeeze through, strain), strãbate (cover, cross, do, perambulate, pervade, sail, sweep, walk), impregna (engrain, imbue, process). (various references)

Russian		проходить (come by, elapse, elapsed, get by, go, go by, go through, move on, pass, pass away, pass through, penetrate, roll by, walk, walked, wear off), проникать (come through, penetrate, pervade, worm). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		protkati (interweave, pervade), prožimati (imbue, pervade), prožeti (consume, imbue, impregnate), širiti se (flare, get about, sheet, spread). (various references)

Spanish		filtrarse (filtrate, leak, leak in, leak out, percolate, seep, sift). (various references)

Swedish		genomtränga (penetrate, pervade, Pierce). (various references)

Turkish		yayılmak (be out at grass, be rife, branch, circulate, diffuse, disperse, effuse, emanate, expand, fan, fan out, get about, get around, get round, go, grow rife, loll, lounge, mushroom, outstretch, overspread, pervade, ramble, ramp, resound, scatter, splay, sprawl, spread, spread oneself, spread out, stretch, unfold), sinmek (cringe, crouch, duck, keep down, pervade), sızmak (creep, effuse, emanate, escape, exude, filter out, infiltrate, leak, leak out, ooze, ooze out, percolate, run, run out, seep, transpire, transude, trickle, weep), geçmek (abate, adjourn, be current, be over, be transmitted, be valid, beat, best, better, cap, catch, change to, clear, come down, cross, cut across, devolve, distance, elapse, exceed, Excel, expire, fit in, get through, go, go by, go down, go out, have outgrown smb., interlace, intervene, lapse, leave behind, negotiate, outdistance, outdo, outgo, outgrow, outpace, outrange, outrival, outrun, outstrip, pass, pass away, pass beyond, pass by, pass into, pass off, pass on, pass over, pass up, ride, rub on, run, run out, subside, surpass, top, tower above, track, transmigrate, turn, wear off). (various references)

Ukranian		просочувати (penetrate, pervade, satiate), проникати (come through, elbow, leak in, penetrate, perforate, seep, shuffle in, strike, work in, worm), поширюватися (circulate, dilate, expand, go, pervade, spread). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	permanent, permanere, permanes, permanet, permanetis. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "permeate": permeated, permeates. (additional references)
	Words ending with "permeate": interpermeate. (additional references)
	Words containing "permeate": interpermeated, interpermeates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Permeate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Parmalat, perceaue, Perdeeta, permate, Permatec, permeant, permease, permeat, perment, permiate, permixta, permixtum, permuate, Persegatti, premate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "permeate" (pronounced per"mēā't)
3	-ē ā' t	abbreviate, affiliate, alleviate, appreciate, delineate, depreciate, deviate, differentiate, emaciate, enunciate, excoriate, expatriate, expiate, expropriate, foliate, glaciate, herniate, humiliate, infuriate, ingratiate, initiate, irradiate, mediate, misappropriate, nauseate, negotiate, obviate, officiate, radiate, recreate, renegotiate, renunciate, repatriate, repudiate, retaliate, substantiate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-m-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: premeet, tempera.
	-2 letters: ampere, meeter, metepa, remate, remeet, repeat, retape, reteam, tamper, teemer, temper.
	-3 letters: ameer, apter, arete, armet, eater, emeer, etape, mater, meter, metre, pater, peart, perea, peter, prate, ramee, ramet, remap, remet, retem, tamer, taper, tepee, tramp.
	-4 letters: aper, epee, mare, mart, mate, meat, meet, mere, meta, mete, pare, part, pate, pear.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-m-p-r-t"
	+1 letter: permeated, permeates, temperate.
	+2 letters: attempered, heptameter, pentameter, permeative, temperable, temperance.
	+3 letters: depravement, heptameters, intemperate, masterpiece, pamphleteer, pentameters, premeditate, reattempted, replacement, temperament, temperances, temperately, temperature, timepleaser.
	+4 letters: depravements, distemperate, ephemerality, experimental, impenetrable, intemperance, masterpieces, pamphleteers, parameterize, premeditated, premeditates, pretreatment, replacements, spermathecae, subtemperate, temperaments, temperatures, timepleasers.
	+5 letters: exemplarities, intemperances, intemperately, interpermeate, kapellmeister, magnetosphere, pamphleteered, parameterized, parameterizes, passementerie, permanentness, phenmetrazine, prematureness, premeditative, pretreatments, semipermanent, temperamental, temperateness.
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