만연하다
Meanings
Verb
1. to spread, to pervade, to grow rampant, to become rife (with) (intransitive, of diseases, of bad customs, etc.)
Pronunciation
manyeonhada
Examples3
이 문제는 그 당시에 훨씬 더 만연했다.
This issue was much more prevalent back then.
총기 사고가 만연한 나라에서 자녀를 학교에 보내는 것은 매일매일이 두려운 일입니다.
It is terrifying to send your kids to school in a country that is rampant with guns.
코로나 감염은 복불복이라는 생각이 사회에 만연하면 방역에 지장이 생길 것이다.
If the notion that being infected by the coronavirus is simply out of bad luck is pervasive in society, this will be problematic for anti-epidemic measures.