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1.0.PERMEATE-   To spread or flow throughout
Synonyms: imbue, pervade, interpenetrate, diffuse, riddle, penetrate
Usage:       An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration.
Quote:         Friendships are discovered rather than made.

1.1.Imbue- im·bued, im·bu·ing, im·bues

1. To inspire or influence thoroughly; pervade: work imbued with the revolutionary spirit. See Synonyms at charge.
2. To permeate or saturate.
3. To stain or dye deeply.

1.2.Pervade Verb- to spread through or throughout (something)
pervasion n
pervasive adj
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1.3.per·me·ate [pic]v. per·me·at·ed, per·me·at·ing, per·me·ates
To spread through or penetrate something.

1.4.sat·u·rate [pic]
1. to soak completely
2. to fill so completely that no more can be added: saturating the area with their men
3. Chem to combine (a substance) or (of a substance) to be combined with the greatest possible amount of another substance [Latin saturare]

1.5.in·ter·pen·e·trate
To become mixed or united by penetration: planes that interpenetrate in a painting.
v.tr.
1. To penetrate reciprocally: The streams interpenetrate each other at the rapids.
2. To penetrate thoroughly; permeate or pervade.

1.6.riddle 1
1. A question or statement requiring thought to answer or understand; a conundrum.
2. One that is perplexing; an enigma.

1.7.riddle 2
1. to pierce(To cut , stab or penetrate) with many holes ; perforate: riddle a target with bullets.
2. to put through a sieve
3. To spread throughout: "Election campaigns have always been riddled with demagogy and worse" New Republic.

1.8.diffuse

to spread over a wide area
USAGE: Avoid confusion with defuse.

2.0. SACRILEGIOUS Adj           (sacer "sacred" + legere "to pick out)
someone who steals sacred things
Profaning or desecrating that which is held to be sacred.

2.1 : a technical and not necessarily intrinsically(inwardly) outrageous violation (as improper reception of a sacrament) of what is sacred...