permeated

American  

[pur-mee-ey-tid] / ˈpɜr miˌeɪ tɪd /

adjective

1. suffused, saturated, penetrated, or filled with something (sometimes used in combination).

   As a precaution, deputies evacuated six houses surrounding the odor-permeated area.

   Now thick smoke from fires in three neighboring states is clotting our already permeated sky.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of permeate.

Other Word Forms

• unpermeated adjective

Etymology

Origin of permeated

permeate ( def. ) + -ed ² ( def. )

Example Sentences

For the rest of the night, we encounter that feeling wherever we go, a throughline that has permeated Coachella’s second weekend since it was introduced in 2012.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2026

And that’s before the spot price of oil, which surged to about $120 per barrel Sunday before falling back to the mid-$90 level, has fully permeated prices at the pump.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2026

The sense that Buxton's best days - Britain's best days, even - lay behind it has permeated the minds of these teenagers, too.

From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025

"We're literally living in filth," said Rakotondrina on a tour permeated by the powerful stench of urine.

From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025

Her eyes moved from face to face in the kitchen, measuring the happiness that permeated their skin, their teeth, their air.

From "Pet" by Akwaeke Emezi

Related Words

• emotional
• fraught
• intense