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Filling and completing
backfill
box ticking
brick
brick something up
brim
fill
jam
occupy
overcrowd
overrun
pack something/somewhere out
permeate
plug
squeeze (someone/something) in/squeeze (someone/something) into something
stuffing
suffuse
supersaturated
take something up
tank
tie

pervade | American Dictionary

pervade
verb[ T ]
us/pərˈveɪd/
to spread through all parts of something:
The influence of the early jazz musicians pervades American music.

Examples of pervade

pervade
For a time, at least, psychical research managed to keep itself above the fraud that pervaded the popular occult.
By concentrating care on the physical body, the warehousing model's view of residents' helplessness pervaded their whole life and could destroy the person.
The violence of breaking down the door seemed to fill this room with pervading dust.
However, in several papers, you have been critical of the rational expectations hypothesis and the assumption of unbounded rationality that pervades modern mainstream macroeconomics.
Although these issues pervade the texts, only a few examples are listed here.
A sense of crossing a threshold from the public sphere of middle-class civilization to a more shadowy and less civilized world pervades the report.
As an element of the wider culture, it pervaded the whole of life, and made itself available for creative adaptation to a host of circumstances.
This pervading sense of internal conflict16 is what lies at the heart of a 'theology of country music'.
The history of medical technology is a political history because it is pervaded by states.
For example, he's well aware of a strand of connoisseurship and elitism that pervades such a project.
With respect to violence after 1820, variations on a narrative of chain reactions pervade the historical record.
Reaching into the high register of the instrument, the opening notes establish the tranquil, spacious mood that pervades throughout.
The image of disease pervaded the sociological texts of the time.
But does this prove a specific link with hunting, or only that hunting metaphors pervaded literary language in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries?
This relationship is not primarily a product of individual experience, effort, and luck despite the rags-to-riches myths that pervade the popular imagination.
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