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Words related to penetrate

Related / Similar Words: click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, fall into place, fathom, bottom, perforate, permeate, pervade, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, infiltrate

Definition:

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

come to understand;

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

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

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

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

Hyponyms: probe, dig into, poke into, cut, interpenetrate, permeate, strike, break, foray, sneak in, creep in, pervade, diffuse, imbue, honeycomb, pierce, thrust, tunnel, percolate, sink in, filter, ingrain, grain, immerse, plunge, storm, force, ooze through, spiritize, spiritise

Derivational Morphology: insight, perforation, penetrator, dispersion, dispersal, dissemination, diffusion, diffuser, diffusor, interpenetration, permeation, pervasion, suffusion, infiltration, infiltrator

Anagrams: Terrapene, Peter Pan, perennate, repentant

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