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be permeated by

verb as in reek

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Meanwhile, when he himself reaches for the same book with Judaism in mind, he feels strange and lost, and the pages seem to be permeated by darkness.

Smell was incredibly important to French people trying to stay uninfected; the body was seen as porous, and could be “permeated” by air with plague in it.

From Slate

In the companion art piece to DJ Shadow’s “Our Pathetic Age,” a poem expresses not wanting to be permeated by the ubiquity of “tech paranoia.”

But if I could, I would descend into all languages and let myself be permeated by them all.

Last year, Pope Francis said that “we must lend our ears to the beat of this era and detect the scent of people today, so as to be permeated by their joys and hopes, by their sadness and distress.”

From Time

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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