Penetrate: alternatives and connections

To bring forward; to move towards the van or front; to make to go on.

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To come or go into; to pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet…

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To set; to fasten or fix by piercing or thrusting in; as, to infix a sting, spear, or dart.

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To set within something; to put or thrust in; to introduce; to cause to enter, or be included, or contained; as, to insert a scion in a stock; to ins…

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To lead or bring in; to conduct or usher in; as, to introduce a person into a drawing-room.

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To bring together, literally or figuratively; to place in contact; to connect; to couple; to unite; to combine; to associate; to add; to append.

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To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surfa…

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A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

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To make real; to convert from the imaginary or fictitious into the actual; to bring into concrete existence; to effectuate; to accomplish; as, to rea…

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A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.

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To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to break rocks or co…

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of Cut

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To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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Any porous substance, as cloth, paper, sand, or charcoal, through which water or other liquid may passed to cleanse it from the solid or impure matte…

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A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.

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To stuff; to lard; to farce.

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See Groan.

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A mass of hexagonal waxen cells, formed by bees, and used by them to hold their honey and their eggs.

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To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

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Immersed; buried; hid; sunk.

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Dyed with grain, or kermes.

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To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually.

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To cause to pass through fine interstices, as a liquor; to filter; to strain.

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To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids w…

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To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.

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To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument.

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To thrust into water, or into any substance that is penetrable; to immerse; to cause to penetrate or enter quickly and forcibly; to thrust; as, to pl…

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To examine, as a wound, an ulcer, or some cavity of the body, with a probe.

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A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…

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A violent disturbance of the atmosphere, attended by wind, rain, snow, hail, or thunder and lightning; hence, often, a heavy fall of rain, snow, or h…

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To touch or hit with some force, either with the hand or with an instrument; to smite; to give a blow to, either with the hand or with any instrument…

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Thrist.

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A vessel with a broad mouth at one end, a pipe or tube at the other, for conveying liquor, fluids, etc., into casks, bottles, or other vessels; a fun…

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The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration.

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The act of penetrating between or within other substances; mutual penetration.

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The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.

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The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.

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To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a pro…

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The lowest part of anything; the foot; as, the bottom of a tree or well; the bottom of a hill, a lane, or a page.

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To make a slight, sharp noise (or a succession of such noises), as by gentle striking; to tick.

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To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning dawns.

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To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to di…

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A measure of length, containing six feet; the space to which a man can extend his arms; -- used chiefly in measuring cables, cordage, and the depth o…

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To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.

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To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.

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To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually.

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To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surfa…

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To pass through the pores or interstices of; to penetrate and pass through without causing rupture or displacement; -- applied especially to fluids w…

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To pass or flow through, as an aperture, pore, or interstice; to permeate.

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A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from san…

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