Crossword clues for permeating
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Permeate \Per"me*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Permeated; p. pr. & vb. n. Permeating.] [L. permeatus, p. p. of permeare to permeate; per + meare to go, pass.]
To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids which pass through substances of loose texture; as, water permeates sand.
--Woodward.-
To enter and spread through; to pervade.
God was conceived to be diffused throughout the whole world, to permeate and pervade all things.
--Cudworth.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of permeate English)
WordNet
adj. spreading throughout; "armed with permeative irony...he punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion" [syn: permeant, permeative, pervasive]
Usage examples of "permeating".
It engulfed her, a moist, permeating blanket, travelling quickly up her body until it covered her face and she could see nothing.
And rock dust had an insidious habit of permeating and clinging to objects well away from the actual excavation.
She envisioned a red mist permeating her thoughts, an ungraspable force compelling her to its will and not her own.
She was battling, as he had suspected, fighting back against that permeating pink haze, trying to recover her sensibilities against its debilitating effects.
There was so much despair permeating the area the half-life would last for another thirty years.
Power circuits formed a grid of fuzzy violet lines permeating the whole edifice as the electron flows emitted their unique signature.
With the leycharged air permeating his lungs, he'd easily and all too willingly join her in what she called the dance of love, but she needed sleep, needed to rest muscles taxed to their limit only hours ago.
There was no essence here, no personality permeating the very rocks about this shadowed lake, as Mother permeated Khoratum, but power resided here, for one ready to feel it.
Around them, the resonant hum of the port impulse engine, along with the sickly whine permeating it, began to fade.
Still under power, the beat of its engines still permeating the hull, the ship seemed eerie for its emptiness.
Left unsaid was the rather noticeable stink of swamp and mud permeating his hair.
Possibly their communal field was strong enough and she was still shocked enough from her arrival that she sensed and was perhaps even guided by the permeating group mind.