penetrate

[Pen·e*trate]

To penetrate is to force into or pierce through. If the fog is thick as pea soup, your flashlight won’t penetrate it. If you stubbornly ignore good advice, people might say nothing can penetrate that thick skull of yours.

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To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

Verb
become clear or enter one''s consciousness or emotions; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was penetrated with sorrow"

Verb
come to understand

Verb
pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest"

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spread or diffuse through; "An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration"; "music penetrated the entire building"

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insert the penis into the vagina or anus of; "Did the molester penetrate the child?"

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make one''s way deeper into ar through; "The hikers did not manage to penetrate the dense forest"

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enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members; "The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor"


v. t.
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

v. t.
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity.

v. t.
To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to comprehend; to understand.

v. i.
To pass; to make way; to pierce. Also used figuratively.


Penetrate

Pen"e*trate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penetrated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Penetrating.] [L. penetratus, p.p. of penetrare to penetrate; akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the power of, penus store of food, innermost part of a temple.] 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity. Shak.
The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
3. To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to comprehend; to understand.
Things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate.

Penetrate

Pen"e*trate, v. i. To pass; to make way; to pierce. Also used figuratively.
Preparing to penetrate to the north and west.
Born where Heaven's influence scarce can penetrate.
The sweet of life that penetrates so near.

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

To pass; to make way; to pierce. Also used figuratively.

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Usage Examples

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

Our dreams are a second life. I have never been able to penetrate without a shudder those ivory or horned gates which separate us from the invisible world.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

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Other Usage Examples

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.

Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.

Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.

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