permeate
B2CEFR level
41/100Rarity: uncommon
NeutralRegister
General verb
To spread throughout something, reaching every part.
A sense of unease seemed to permeate the entire building.
Business verb
To spread throughout something and become a pervasive part of it.
The founder made sure the service ethos permeated every touchpoint, from packaging to returns.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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