Diffusing and Permeating

diffusing

Move outward.
- usage: "The soldiers fanned out"
- synonyms: diffuse, spread, spread out, fan out
Spread or diffuse through.
- usage: "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
- synonyms: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle
Cause to become widely known.
- usage: "spread information"; "circulate a rumor"; "broadcast the news"
- synonyms: circulate, circularize, circularise, distribute, disseminate, propagate, broadcast, spread, diffuse, disperse, pass around

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Diffuse.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

permeating

Spread or diffuse through.
- usage: "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"; "His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks"
- synonyms: permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle
Pass through.
- usage: "Water permeates sand easily"
- synonyms: percolate, sink in, permeate, filter
Penetrate mutually or be interlocked.
- usage: "The territories of two married people interpenetrate a lot"
- synonyms: interpenetrate, permeate

Spreading or spread throughout.
- usage: "armed with permeative irony... He punctures affectations"; "the pervasive odor of garlic"; "an error is pervasive if it is material to more than one conclusion"
- synonyms: permeant, permeative, pervasive

(p.pr.&vb.n.) of Permeate.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary