Penetrate

Quick meaning: Penetrate is a verb meaning To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.

Meaning

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
3. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
4. To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.
5. (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.

Example Sentences

Light penetrates darkness.

I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.

and they, ... they .... fly though space, and they penetrate the atmosphere[…]after an amazing nine-month journey

The native-born and the "naturalised" locomotives have been giving way to the standardised types, of which the L.M.S.R. class "5" 4-6-0 has led the way and has penetrated the furthest.

Word Forms

• penetrates
• penetrating
• penetrated

Synonyms for penetrate

Depending on context, synonyms include ransack, fathom, bottom, click, dawn.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fathom, click, bottom, dawn, penetration, pierce.

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