Penetrate

Definition: Penetrate

Penetrate

Verb

1. Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest".

2. Come to understand.

3. Become clear suddenly; "It dawned on him that she had betrayed him".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "penetrate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Note: Penetrate \Pen"e*trate\, transitive verb. [imperfect & past participle. Penetrated; Penetrating.]. (references)

Synonyms: Penetrate

Excitation

Stir the feelings, play on the feelings, come home to the feelings; touch a string, touch a chord, touch the soul, touch the heart; go to one's heart, penetrate, pierce, go through one, touch to the quick; possess the soul, pervade the soul, penetrate the soul, imbrue the soul, absorb the soul, affect the soul, disturb the soul.

Ingress

Verb: have the entree; enter; go into, go in, come into, come in, pour into, pour in, flow into, flow in, creep into, creep in, slip into, slip in, pop into, pop in, break into, break in, burst into, burst in; set foot on; ingress; burst in upon, break in upon; invade, intrude; insinuate itself; interpenetrate, penetrate; infiltrate; find one's way into, wriggle into, worm oneself into.

Intelligence Wisdom

See through, see at a glance, see with half an eye, see far into, see through a millstone; penetrate; discern; (descry); foresee.

Passage

Verb: pass, pass through; perforate; (hole); penetrate, permeate, thread, thrid, enfilade; go through, go across; go over, pass over; cut across; ford, cross; pass and repass, work; make one's way, thread one's way, worm one's way, force one's way; make a passage form a passage; cut one's way through; find its way, find its vent; transmit, make way, clear the course; traverse, go over the ground.

Thought

Make an impression; sink into the mind, penetrate into the mind; engross the thoughts.

Crosswords: Penetrate

A trillion tons of rock and dust were thrown into the atmosphere, creating a cloud the sun was powerless to penetrate for a thousand years (Armageddon; writing credit: Robert Roy Pool; Jonathan Hensleigh)

Nothing seems to penetrate my heart (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I must penetrate the heart of his secret (Kabinett des Doktor Caligari, Das; writing credit: Hans Janowitz; Carl Mayer)

That none may penetrate. (I Am a Rock; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel)

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Books

• Computer Phreaking: How Computers Penetrate Each Other (reference)

• How to Help Your Business Clients Penetrate Foreign Markets (271-1984) (reference)

• Penetrate (The Night Whistlers, No. 2) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Penetrate (reference)

• Penetrate the Satanic Citizen (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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The metastatic colony is the end result of a complicated multistep process. The tumor cells from a primary tumor invade local tissue and gain access to the venous circulation (intravasation). Circulating tumor cells, singly or in clumps, are transported to target organs where they lodge in the capillary bed. Thus arrested, these tumor cells penetrate the endothelial cell lining and the underlining basement membrane to exit the circulation (extravasation). They then grow as a metastatic colony, a development that requires new blood vessels (neovascularization). To complete this multistep process, the tumor cells must overcome the host's defenses. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The siphon is adapted to penetrate the tissue of aquatic plants, from which air is obtained, thus enabling the larvae to remain below the water surface at all times. Credit: CDC.

Figure 25. Bachmann penetration tubes. These instruments are not properly sounders, but an accessory for use with the instruments of the time. The bacteriologist Martin Bachman designed these tubes in order to elongate the real sounder tube and penetrate more deeply into the sediment. These tubes achieved deep penetration but little sample material. First used on VALDIVIA in 1898. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

Hydrophobic soils occur after a fire where water will not penetrate the soil. Credit: USDA.

Autos have to turn on lights to penetrate gloom of dust storm. Amarillo, Texas. Credit: Library of Congress.

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This being the case, when a convent was found on our path, we were compelled to penetrate it.

I perceive that we inhabitants of New England live this mean life that we do because our vision does not penetrate the surface of things

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Health

Cyst infections are difficult to treat because many antibiotics do not penetrate into the cysts. (references)

When the cornea becomes cloudy, light cannot penetrate the eye to reach the light-sensitive retina. (references)

Within 24 hours zygotes transform into ookinetes which penetrate the midgut to form oocysts and, later, sporozoites. (references)

Business

There are no insurmountable obstacles to penetrate this sector of the Russian market. (references)

Distribution through a local agent is one of the best vehicles to penetrate the RFE market. (references)

Exporters will find it easy to penetrate the market through direct agent/distributor agreements. (references)

Economic History

Ireland

U.S. component manufacturers such as Analog Devices, Intel, SCI and Tellabs have established local manufacturing subsidiaries to penetrate the Irish and European markets. (references)

Australia

The main telephone lines are mostly land-based and penetrate about 96 percent of all households. (references)

Czech Rep

Buying into the four Czech-owned pension funds operating in the market offers the best opportunities for U.S. pension funds to penetrate the fast growing Czech pension market. (references)

Political Economy

MALAYSIA

Further, ASEAN has accepted Malaysia's request for an extension of its commitments under the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) to reduce tariffs in the auto sector beginning in 2000. These restrictions have hampered the ability of U.S. firms to penetrate the Malaysian market. (references)

Trade

Thailand

Nevertheless, Thailand's high tariff structure remains a major market access impediment . Duties on many high-value fresh and processed food products are especially high . Even though the rates will decline by 33 to 50 percent under the WTO, most items will remain in the 30 to 40 percent range by the year 2004 -- high compared with Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia . Thus, producers of meats, certain fresh and dried fruits, juices, and other packaged items may still find it difficult to penetrate the Thai market. (references)

Egypt

Knowing the financing and insurance programs available to Egyptian manufacturers and exporters can provide both insight into the market and possible tools for helping to penetrate that market. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "penetrate": causing to penetrate ♦ penetrate into ♦ penetrate into the mind ♦ penetrate smb.'s disguise ♦ penetrate the defenses ♦ penetrate the soul ♦ penetrate through smth. ♦ penetrate through the defenses ♦ penetrate with. Additional references.

Albanian

depërtoj (break through, elbow, filter, infiltrate, needle, perforate, permeate, seep, soak, thread, worm). (various references)

Arabic 

‏فهم (accept, apprehend, apprehension, brain, catch, comprehend, comprehension, conceive, conception, discern, discernment, grasp, hear, hear of, intelligence, know, know of, learn, learn about, make out, perceive, perception, pick out, pierce, put across, puzzle out, realization, realize, see, see daylight, see the light, seeing, sense, skulk, sort out, take in, twig, understand, understanding, understood), ‏نفذ الى, ‏نفذ (act, activate, be executed, carry into effect, carry out, come true, commit, computerize, do, effect, effectuate, enforce, execute, fill, fulfil, fulfill, honor, honour, implement, invoke, percolate, perform, permeate, petering, pierce, practise, proceed, pursue, put into effect, realize, transfix, traverse), ‏تغلغل (penetration, permeate, permeation), ‏تسلل (crept, infiltrate, infiltration, insinuate, nose, percolate, permeation, plant, skulk, sneak, spy out, steal in, steal out, stealth), ‏تخلل شيئا, ‏إخترق (break through, cleave, perforate, permeate, pierce, sink, transfuse), ‏أثر في الحواس أو المشاعر, ‏أدرك (apprehend, awake, comprehend, feel, follow, get at, observe, overhaul, overtake, perceive, pierce, realize, recognize, rejoin, see, see daylight, sense, sober up, take, twig, understand). (various references)

Bulgarian 

напоявам (drench, imbue, impregnate, irrigate, saturate, soak, water), пропивам (infiltrate, leaven, soak, tincture), промъквам се в (slip in), пронизвам (impale, peg at, rend, search, shoot through, spear, strike, thrust through, transfix, transpierce), прониквам (come through, percolate, perforate, pervade, seep, sift, soak, strike, sweep in, work in), прониквам в (enter, permeate, tap, transfuse), просмуквам се в (saturate), достигам до (attain, meet, run to, touch), минавам през (go by, go through, pass through), разкривам (bewray, bring to light, detect, disclose, discover, disinter, divulge, elicit, expose, find out, manifest, show, smell out, spill, unbare, unclose, unclothe, uncover, uncurtain, undress, unkennel, unload, unlock, unravel, unveil), навлизам в (walk into), насищам (glut, imbue, impregnate, permeate, satiate, saturate, slake), виждам през, трогвам (affect, move, reach, touch), разбирам (apprehend, catch on, comprehend, cotton, discover, fathom, figure out, find out, follow, grasp, grip, have, latch, make out, perceive, pick up, realize, riddle, rumble, see, see through, sense, take, take in, think, understand, work out), развълнувам (fluster, flutter, groove, move, shake, wind up, work on), проумявам (figure out, make out, see daylight, work out). (various references)

Chinese 

穿透 , 穿 (pass through, perforate, pierce, to bore through, to dress, to put on, to thread, to wear), 徹 (pass through, penetrating, pervade, thorough), 击穿 (Penetrated, Penetrating). (various references)

Czech

proniknout (come through, infiltrate, pervade, Pierce), vniknout (insinuate). (various references)

Danish

vandet cirkulerer i kullet igennem et net af fine spraekker, beviset herfor er foert derved, at vand traenger ud igennem injektionsborehullerne (proof of this is the fact that water can be made to penetrate by infusion probes, the water circulates through the coal by way of a network of fissures), farlige i henhold til dette direktiv er følgende stoffer og præparater::sensibiliserende:stoffer og præparater,som ved indånding eller optagelse gennem huden kan fremkalde en overfølsomhedsreaktion,således at der ved yderligere eksponering for sto (are capable of eliciting a reaction of hypersensitization such that on further exposure to the substance or preparation characteristic adverse effects are produced, if they are inhaled or if they penetrate the skin, the following are dangerous within the meaning of this Directive::sensitizing substances and preparations:substances and preparations which), ectoparasitter, som forbliver paa vaertsorganismens overflade og traenger ind ved hjaelp af saerlige sugeorganer (ectophytic parasites, penetrate to the inside by means of special suctorial organs, which remain on the outside of the host tissue). (various references)

Dutch

doorstoten, doordringen (get in), binnendringen (intrusion, penetration, perpetration). (various references)

Esperanto

penetri. (various references)

Faeroese

spríkja. (various references)

Farsi 

نفوذکردن در, رخنه کردن (Transpire), بداخل سرایت کردن . (various references)

Finnish

tunkeutua (edge one's way through, force one's way, intrude, push), tunkea läpi (break through, force one's way through, permeate), läpäistä (get through, go through, pass, permeate, pierce), imeytyä (be absorbed, soak). (various references)

French

pénétrer (percolate, perforate, permeate). (various references)

German

durchdringen (come through, get through, imbue, impregnate, infiltrate, inform, penetration, permeate, pervade, Pierce, thrill, to pervade, to soak, transfuse). (various references)

Greek 

εισχωρώ (infiltrate, slip in), διαπερνώ. (various references)

Hawaiian

depërtoj. (various references)

Hebrew 

לפלש (dig through), לח�"ור (bore, enter, get home, get through, infiltrate, inroad, permeate), ל� סור (saw), ח�"ר (chamber, room). (various references)

Hungarian

behatol (intrude, move in, to burgle, to foray, to get in, to get under one's skin, to intrude, to pierce, to push in), áttör (breach, break through, mash, shoot through, to breach, to break through, to pass through, to rupture, to splinter through), átszúr (to needle, to pierce, to preen, to prick, to prod, to stab, to stake, transfix, transpierce), átjár valamit, áthatol (permeate, plough through, to break through, to come through, to get through, to percolate, to plough through, to repass), átüt (punch, to punch, to show through). (various references)

Indonesian

molos (go away without paying), meresap (become absorbed, dissipate, encroach, infiltrate, ooze out), menyusup (infiltrate, move (below something)), menjebol (break down, break through), mendobrak (batter down). (various references)

Italian

penetrare (enter, intrusion, irruption, penetrate into, permeate, Pierce, pierce into, seep into, sink, sink in, soak, soak in, steal into, strike). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

貫通 (perforate, pierce). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

か�"つう (adultery, perforate, pierce). (various references)

Korean 

관통하십시�" (Pierce). (various references)

Manx

towlaghey (burrow, cavitation). (various references)

Papiamen

penetrá. (various references)

Pig Latin

enetratepay.(various references)

Portuguese

penetrar (break, embed, fathom, get in, infiltrate, intrude, perforate, permeate, reach, stick, strike through, transpierce). (various references)

Romanian

pãtrunde (come in, filter, interpenetrate, perceive, percolate, perforate, permeate, pervade, see into, sink, touch, understand), strãpunge (Gore, perforate, Pierce, pin, pink, puncture, Ray, riddle, stab, transfix, tunnel), se rãspândi (be abroad, be in the air, diffuse, get out, grow, overspread, run, se rãspândi, spread), intra în (come into, enter, enter into, go for, go in, go into, join in, penetrate into, step into), infiltra (creep, infiltrate, seep, slink), îmbiba (imbue, soak, steep). (various references)

Russian 

входить (bob in, bob into, come in, come into, enter, get in, get into, go in, perform, step in, step into), просочиться (leak), проходить через (sluice through), проходить (come by, elapse, elapsed, get by, go, go by, go through, move on, pass, pass away, pass through, permeate, roll by, walk, walked, wear off), проникать (come through, permeate, pervade, worm), пронизывать (skewered, skewering, skewers), пролезать (through). (various references)

Scottish

drùidh (affect, influence, ooze through, soak), drùdh. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prodreti (breach, break through), prodirati (come in, infiltrate), probiti (break out, break through, clear, cleave, come through, elbow, fight, force, go through, pierce, plow, poke, ram, run through, stave in, thrust, wedge), probijati se (shift). (various references)

Spanish

penetrar (bite, break through, diffuse, emerge, fathom, go through, infiltrate, Lodge, perforate, permeate, see into, see through, sink in, sink into, soak through, work in). (various references)

Swedish

tränga igenom (come through), penetrera, genomtränga (permeate, pervade, Pierce). (various references)

Turkish

sokulmak (come close, come up, creep, draw near, edge, edge in, encroach, infiltrate, nestle, nuzzle, put oneself forward, sidle, sidle up to, snuggle, worm one's way, wriggle oneself into), nüfuz etmek (diffuse, indwell, pass through, Pierce), işlemek (brake, brand, commit, cultivate, discourse, engrave, farm, ferry, forge, function, go, grave, hammer, handle, indwell, instil, instill, operate, perform, perpetrate, print, process, run, sink, sink into, stamp, strike, tame, till, travel, treat, work), içyüzünü anlamak, içine girmek, arasından geçmek (pass through, thread). (various references)

Turkmen 

bцwьsmek (break through). (various references)

Ukrainian

вторгатися (encroach, encroach on, muscle), збагнути (apprehend, catch, comprehend, conceive, gather one's wits, get at, tumble to), просочувати (permeate, pervade, satiate), проникати (come through, elbow, leak in, perforate, permeate, seep, shuffle in, strike, work in, worm). (various references)

Welsh

treiddio (pass, pierce). (various references)

Yucatec

pot. (various references)

descendam, descendamus, descendant, descendas, descendat, descendatis, descende, descendebant, descendebat, descendendi, descendens, descendent, descendente, descendentem, descendentes, descendentibus, descendentis, descendentium, descendentque, descenderant, descenderat, descendere, descenderem, descenderent, descenderes, descenderet, descenderint, descenderintque, descenderit, descendero, descenderunt, descenderuntque, descendes, descendet, descendetis, descendi, descendimus, descendique, descendissent, descendisset, descendissetque, descendisti, descendit, descendite, descenditis, descenditque, descendo, descendunt, descensione, descensu, descensum, descensus, foro, inrumpentes, inrumperent, inruperunt, inrupit, intra, intrabant, intrabat, intrabimus, intrabis, intrabit, intrabitis, intrabitque, intrabunt, intrando, intrans, intrant, intrante, intrantem, intrantes, intrantibus, intrare, intrarent, intraret, intraretis, intrasse, intrassent, intrasset, intrasti, intrat, intrate, intratis, intraturi, intraverant, intraverat, intraveris, intraverit, intraveritis, intravero, intraverunt, intravi, intravimus, intravit, intrem, intremus, intrent, intres, intret, intretis, intro, penetrabis, penetrabit, penetrabo, penetrant, penetrantes, penetrare, penetraverit, penetro, subintravit. (various references)

feolan. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "penetrate": penetrated, penetrates. (additional references)

Words ending with "penetrate": interpenetrate. (additional references)

Words containing "penetrate": interpenetrated, interpenetrates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Penetrate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: penaltriate, penentrate, Penerive, penetrant, penetrator, penitrate, pentate, pentrite, venetrate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: patentee.

-2 letters: entreat, pattern, preteen, ratteen, reptant, ternate, terpene.

-3 letters: arpent, enrapt, entera, entrap, entree, eterne, natter, neater, netter, parent, patent, pattee, patten, patter, petter, ratten, repeat, repent, retape, retene, teener, teeter, tenter, terete, trepan.

-4 letters: antre, apter, arete, arpen, eaten, eater, enate, enter, etape, paten, pater, peart, perea, peter, prate, preen, ranee, rente.

+1 letter: penetrated, penetrates, pentameter, terneplate.

+2 letters: intemperate, penetrative, pentameters, repatterned, temperament, terneplates.

+3 letters: interpellate, predestinate, presentative, pretreatment, preventative, temperaments.

+4 letters: enteropathies, intemperately, interpellated, interpellates, interpermeate, interpretable, preanesthetic, predestinated, predestinates, pretreatments, preventatives, temperamental, temperateness.

+5 letters: extemporaneity, hyperventilate, interoperative, interpenetrate, interpermeated, interpermeates, interpretative, pectinesterase, penitentiaries, preanesthetics, presentimental, representation, representative, treponematoses, unpremeditated.