Definition of Penetrate

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Penetrate

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

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.

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.

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

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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 greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
Michelangelo

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

There is no way to penetrate the surface of life but by attacking it earnestly at a particular point.
Charles Horton Cooley

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.
Ivan Pavlov

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate.
Leonhard Euler

And it's a question of how far we're willing to go in order to let the ego shine, in order to let that beacon penetrate not only the local scene but the world.
Taylor Hackford

I strongly support the call to greatly expand our human intelligence capability to penetrate al Qaeda and gather critical intelligence to prevent terrorist attacks on our homeland.
Jim Ramstad

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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