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[ adjective ] spread throughout

Synonyms

pervasive

Examples

"a pervasive anxiety overshadows the triumphs of individuals"

Used in print

(Guy Bolton, The Olympians....)

At_the_same_time another child - this one of Shelley 's brain - was given to the world : Alastor , a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind 's musings .

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

A biting , pithy parable of the all pervading hollowness of modern life , the piece has been set by Mlle_Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over_and_over by four thousand French_horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul_Sartre .

Related terms

general

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Rhymes with

invading fading raiding wading lading voiding shading vending featherbedding trading braiding grading wording marauding pending herding degrading blockading forbidding spreading spending bedding surrounding padding pudding reading redding pleading overriding impending expending ding dowding wedding ending speeding feeding heading shedding tending bending riding reading rending dividing providing plodding prodding forwarding beheading sledding sending mending welding lending siding leading guiding seeding ceding impeding hiding chiding offending pounding pretending attending defending encoding breeding contending unbending bleeding budding bidding blending descending condescending exploding unending ascending sliding gliding expanding expounding corresponding understanding misunderstanding binding compounding subsiding finding fielding loading nodding coding goading skateboarding shipbuilding abiding inbreeding upstanding spellbinding exceeding proceeding yielding preceding deciding confiding conceding coinciding winding brooding misleading misreading succeeding wilding receding flooding eluding shielding railroading protruding wounding crowding banding building clouding bonding bounding blinding balding boarding grinding funding founding folding eroding shrouding rounding concluding intruding including standing unyielding unwinding decoding moulding molding shareholding landholding landing abounding unloading stockholding guarding golding gilding rebuilding foreboding sounding forbidding outstanding confounding notwithstanding unfolding scaffolding astounding holding hoarding harding scolding branding longstanding scalding grounding freestanding demanding commanding disregarding according awarding rescinding recording regarding resounding rewarding beholding discarding withholding backsliding

Phonetic and Homophones

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Similar Spelling

pervade

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