To pervade is to fill or cover everything with something. When you pervade a room with a smell, you are covering it with that smell.
The smell of the perfume was so strong that it pervaded the entire room.
The flowers were so colorful that they pervaded the room.
verb
spread or diffuse through
Synonyms:
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A functionalist style pervades the house.
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The water pervades the sheet slowly.
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The abuse may pervade the family environment.
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It's a vaguely defined miasma of irrationalism that pervades academia.
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The highlighting of achievements only still pervade the article.
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In the other pictures of the grey series, the mood is of pervading melancholy.
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Indiscriminate attacks and arbitrary arrests pervade Southern Kordofan.
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Dancers of the story of the theme should pervade the whole dance.
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This sentiment of sexual antagonism pervaded much of the suffragette struggle.
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A sense of normalcy would once again pervade the Granite City.