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Definition of Penetrate

Penetrate

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

Penetrate Quotations

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

An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.
Thomas Paine

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.
T. S. Eliot

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.
Saint Ignatius

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.
Anthony Hecht
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Penetrate Translations

penetrate in Dutch is doordringen, binnendringen, doorstoten
penetrate in German is durchdringe, durchdringen, durchdringen
penetrate in Italian is penetrare
penetrate in Latin is penetro, foro
penetrate in Portuguese is penetre
penetrate in Spanish is penetrar

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