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penetrate English

Meaning penetrate meaning

What does penetrate mean?
Definitions in simple English

penetrate Verb

— If you penetrate something, you enter it. The rocket was the first to penetrate space. Light penetrates into the windows during the daytime. A penis penetrates the vagina during intercourse.

penetrate

— verb pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance The bullet penetrated her chest — verb come to understand — verb (= dawn) become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions It dawned on him that she had betrayed him she was penetrated with sorrow — verb insert the penis into the vagina or anus of Did the molester penetrate the child? — verb make one's way deeper into or through The hikers did not manage to penetrate the dense forest — verb (= infiltrate) enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor — verb (= permeate, diffuse, riddle) spread or diffuse through An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration music penetrated the entire building His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks

Synonyms penetrate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as penetrate?

penetrate English » English

pierce enter permeate pervade infiltrate perforate pierce through go through break through stab sink in pass through piece invade reach insert go into go in fathom drill bore shoot through prick get in comprehend trespass thrust sink seep riddle punch probe pass intrude interpenetrate get across filter come through wedge through take root squeeze spread soak into see through a trick rush in push puncture penetration penetrance

Topics penetrate topics

What do people use penetrate to talk about?
Physical actions Move something Move something in a direction

Put in
Social behavior Conflict Fight

Attack

Conjugation penetrate conjugation

How do you conjugate penetrate?

penetrate · verb

Examples penetrate examples

How do I use penetrate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

She let me penetrate her.

Movie subtitles

Built streamlined monstrosities to penetrate its resistance.
And I'm not gonna wait until the facts penetrate that thick skull of yours.
Feels good on top of my head, but it don't penetrate.
Our C-ray. the calcinator death ray..cannot penetrate them.
Can penetrate into the spine, very quietly.
This is our chance to prove we can penetrate a heavily defended river.
The artillery doesn't penetrate.
Doesn't anything ever penetrate those Prussian skulls?
Science is better equipped today than ever.to penetrate all apparent mysteries.
I will remind every man in this crew that we're trained to penetrate the enemy's protective screens and shields.
Did you penetrate deeply enough to confirm?
To put a man out like a light, penetrate our respirators, do all this.
He scrambled up and tried to penetrate me but I defended myself.
When he couldn't penetrate me he continued up my chest up into my face and onto the wall.
Oh, so it was Captain Randall who so imprudently attempted to penetrate the lines.
To invade and penetrate Germany through the Lowlands.
Maybe the public heart is something you can't put on a chart, or penetrate with just money.
Television waves can't penetrate mountains. With the aid of neutrino rays, we can.
They set up an electronic screen. The artillery doesn't penetrate.
New radar installations must be calibrated by the flying of controlled test flights to check the accuracy of the equipment and to chart a detection profile of the area in order to pinpoint blind spots the radar cannot penetrate.
If roentgen rays can't penetrate it, we know it's solid.
I don't get it. At this short distance the radar waves should penetrate even the thickest clouds.
My vision does not penetrate into the harem Of the queen's apartment.
I can't quite penetrate the darkness.
Very crude, I grant you, but from that beginning will come more and more powerful lights. until they're able to penetrate through skin and bone- give a picture of a man's anatomy or his brain.
Until the end of time. men will try to penetrate the mystery of her perfection.
And to work for a man, it must penetrate the consciousness.
If the enemy can penetrate, let him.
In just a few minutes now our great atomic projectiles will penetrate the enemy's defense and strike.
The Voord were trying to penetrate the walls.
How soon will the planes penetrate Russian radar cover?
The radioactivity would never penetrate a mine some thousands of feet deep.
The rest of the staff and I believe that an atomic missile would penetrate the crust more like this.
You alone will penetrate a place from which no one's ever returned.
Aye, sir, but they won't penetrate that force field.

News and current affairs

No one should be surprised the latest anti-tank missiles can penetrate even the heaviest and best protected of battle tanks.
This, along with media disinformation, has made it difficult for outsiders to penetrate the cases and separate fact from fiction.
But it was the US that had a quota of 2.2 million units for Japanese cars, while the Japanese market was open but difficult to penetrate.
Its benefits and its disadvantages penetrate more deeply.
Nevertheless, Putin still considers it necessary to pose in front of television cameras every few months to report that Russian scientists have developed some new missile that can penetrate any anti-ballistic missile system that the US may erect.

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