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Pervasive

Tending to pervade, or having power to spread throughout; of a pervading quality.

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Distributive 84% connected

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Distributive 84% connected

Tending to distribute; serving to divide and assign in portions; dealing to each his proper share.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Imbue 74% connected

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Imbue 74% connected

To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Permeant 92% connected

Passing through; permeating.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Permeating 92% connected

of Permeate

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Atmosphere noun · 78% connection

Any surrounding or pervading influence or condition.

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Attraction noun · 78% connection

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate part…

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Community noun · 78% connection

a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common; "he was well known throughout t…

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Conducive adjective · 78% connection

Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote.

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Contractive adjective · 78% connection

Tending to contract; having the property or power or power of contracting.

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Convergent adjective · 78% connection

tending to one point of focus; tending to approach each other; converging.

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Descensive adjective · 78% connection

Tending to descend; tending downwards; descending.

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Diffuse verb · 78% connection

To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to c…

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Display verb · 78% connection

To unfold; to spread wide; to expand; to stretch out; to spread.

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Dispread verb · 78% connection

To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams.

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Disseminate v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To sow broadcast or as seed; to scatter for growth and propagation, like seed; to spread abroad; to diffuse; as, principles, ideas, op…

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Distribution noun · 78% connection

How data or resources are spread out.

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Ether noun · 78% connection

A medium of great elasticity and extreme tenuity, supposed to pervade all space, the interior of solid bodies not excepted, and to be…

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Gothic noun · 78% connection

a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized…

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Horse power unknown · 78% connection

A unit of power, used in stating the power required to drive machinery, and in estimating the capabilities of animals or steam engines…

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Imagination noun · 78% connection

The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to c…

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Inexpedient adjective · 78% connection

Not expedient; not tending to promote a purpose; not tending to the end desired; inadvisable; unfit; improper; unsuitable to time and…

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Intellect noun · 78% connection

The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity…

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