Permeating

verb

verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of permeate form-of, gerund, participle, present

    "As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating 'Russification'), I was a railway buff."

Adjective
  1. 1
    spreading or spread throughout wordnet

Synonyms

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distributivepermeantpermeativepervasive

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"As a schoolboy in the Soviet Ukraine's second largest city of Kharkiv, (it was then spelled Kharkov in line with the all-permeating 'Russification'), I was a railway buff."

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