Verbiage - May 24, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 at 11:00AM
Rob Dean in Bill Cosby, Pervade, Verbiage

Today's word of the day: Pervade

[per-veyd] 
–verb (used with object), -vad·ed, -vad·ing.
to become spread throughout all parts of: Spring pervaded the air.

 

Origin:
1645–55;  < Latin pervādere  to pass through, equivalent to per- per-  + vādere  to go, walk
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