Usually means: Spread or diffuse through something.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. permeate: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. permeate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. permeate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. permeate: Collins English Dictionary
  5. permeate: Vocabulary.com
  6. permeate: Wordnik
  7. permeate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. permeate: Wiktionary
  9. permeate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. permeate: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. permeate: Dictionary.com
  12. permeate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Permeate: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Permeate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. permeate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. permeate: Rhymezone
  17. permeate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. permeate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. permeate: Free Dictionary
  20. permeate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. permeate: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. permeate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. permeate: Legal dictionary

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  1. permeate: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. permeate: Medical dictionary

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  1. permeate: Idioms

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  1. permeate: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) 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
verb:  (transitive) To enter and spread through; to pervade.
noun:  A watery by-product of milk production.
noun:  Liquid that has passed through a filtration system.

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