to penetrate
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5.0
- verb
- /ˈpɛnəˌtreɪt/
:
penetrar
- Only in the second part of that decade did it begin to penetrate national markets in earnest.
- penetrate the market
- influence penetrates
- penetrates every corner
Like what commercials are penetrating our culture?
- Like what commercials are penetrating our culture?
- So he says, those outside could by no sensible means penetrate into my soul, right?
- I'll just the beta particles don't they don't penetrate all the way through this.
- And this is really just to allow the product to penetrate more efficiently and effectively.
- And it helps I, I feel like it helps my moisturizing products penetrate deeper.
- It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.
- So once they're adults, it's really hard to get any sort of chemical control to penetrate through that outer covering.
- So small dense LD LS do more easily penetrate the endothelium, but they carry less cholesterol.
- That's when the top sheet gets very dry and cracks and water doesn't have water will not penetrate caked soil.
- And there's probably some some willful blindness by a family member to the harsh realities, but somehow it may have penetrated even that.
- Imagine the Internet of Things penetrating our homes and more through services like Amazon's Alexa kill Ryan Nicodemus.
- But it's very when you're getting consumed by that sort of darkness and that misery, it's very hard to let light penetrate.
Examples
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A strange smell, like that of the rotting debris found on the beach, penetrated the whole room.
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Furthermore, a recent Brown University study showed that lead contamination can spread farther and penetrate deeper than expected.
Academic text (2013) -
Radiation is a sort of energy which can penetrate deep into your body - - and harm your health.
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And this is really just to allow the product to penetrate more efficiently and effectively.
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Meaning solar radiation would be able to penetrate our atmosphere, which matches up with what we just saw.
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You let the food protein penetrate into your bloodstream.
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It helps the gel that I'm using to remove the surface grime penetrate through the layers.
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Being uncharged, neutrons can penetrate deeply to interact with the nuclei of the target material.
Academic text (1994) -
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, its message penetrated Japanese, Chinese, and other Asian circles.
Academic text (1992) -
The moisturizer is designed to penetrate deeply into the skin for better hydration.
Synonyms
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5.5
To spread out and reach many people or places
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3.0
To move slowly through a surface into something
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6.0
To spread through something and reach every part
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6.9
To fill a person or thing with a particular quality
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6.7
Spread through a place so you notice it everywhere
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7.3
To move slowly through a material like soil or walls
Antonyms
How Thorough
Surface Forms
Morphology
penetrate = penetr + ate
Same morphological structure as the basic physical sense; the morphemes are not transparent to typical learners, so the sense cannot be derived from the parts.
Etymology
Penetrate comes from the old Latin word penetrāre, which means 'to go into' or 'reach inside'. So when a smell or feeling penetrates a room, it goes into every part of that place.