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pervasive

[ per-vey-siv ]

adjective

  1. spread throughout:

    The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.



pervasive

/ ɜːˈɪɪ /

adjective

  1. pervading or tending to pervade
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈ, adverb
  • ˈԱ, noun
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Other yvlog Forms

  • ··· adverb
  • ···Ա noun
  • ·ٱ··· adjective
  • in·ter···· adverb
  • ԴDz··· adjective
  • non···· adverb
  • ܲ··· adjective
  • un···· adverb
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of pervasive1

First recorded in 1730–40; equivalent to Latin (ܲ), past participle of “to pass through” + -ive ( def ); pervade ( def )
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of pervasive1

C18: from Latin ܲ, past participle of to pervade
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“Exotic Deadly: Or the MSG Play” — which has played San Diego, San Francisco and, later this year, Seattle — centers on a time-traveling high schooler saving the world from the ingredient pervasive to Asian cuisine.

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Issues like homelessness have been so pervasive that Mantle has a good working knowledge of its complexities.

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Yet there remains a pervasive culture of silence in former gang neighbourhoods.

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Along came Rodrigo Duterte, a swaggering ruffian from the southern island of Mindanao, whose 1998 psychological assessment concluded he had a “pervasive tendency to demean, humiliate others and violate their rights.”

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The Office of the Lady Chief Justice said the judiciary understood that domestic violence had become a "pervasive scourge on society" and were fully committed to playing their part in countering it.

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