The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Permeate \Per"me*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Permeated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Permeating.] [L. permeatus, p. p. of permeare to
permeate; per + meare to go, pass.]
1. 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; as, water permeates sand.
--Woodward.
[1913 Webster]
2. To enter and spread through; to pervade; as, after the
first setback, the team became permeated with pessimism.
[1913 Webster]
God was conceived to be diffused throughout the
whole world, to permeate and pervade all things.
--Cudworth.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
permeated \permeated\ adj.
p. p. of permeate; as, Her poems are permeated with sorrow.
[WordNet 1.5] permeating
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "permeated":
awash, bathed, crawling, creeping, deluged, dipped, drenched,
dribbling, dripping, dripping wet, drowned, engulfed, flooded,
honeycombed, immersed, inundated, macerated, oozing, overflowed,
saturated, seeping, shot through, soaked, soaking, soaking wet,
soaky, sodden, soggy, sopping, sopping wet, soppy, soused, steeped,
submerged, submersed, swamped, swarming, teeming, waterlogged,
watersoaked, weeping, weltering, whelmed, wringing wet