Penetrate

English

Verb

Penetrate (third-person singular simple present Penetrates, present participle penetrating, simple past and past participle penetrated)

1. Manage to enter into.
2. To insert a penis into an opening, such as a vagina.

Derived terms

• penetration
• penetrable

Adverbs for Penetrate

accurately; accidentally; decisively; freely; scientifically; discerningly; gradually.

Thesaurus

affect, auger, be glimpsed, be hep to, be on to, be realized, be remembered, be wise to, benumb, bespread, besprinkle, bite, bore, breathe, brew, broach, catch on to, charge, chill, color, come across, come alive, come home to, come in, come through, comprehend, countersink, crawl with, creep with, cut, dawn on, decoct, descry, diffuse, dig, discern, discover, dredge, drill, drive, dye, ease in, empierce, encroach, enter, entincture, extend throughout, fathom, figure out, fill, find out, fix, flavor, freeze, frost, frostbite, gain entree, get, get across, get at, get into, get over, get through, get to, go deep, go in, go into, go through, go through one, gore, gouge, gouge out, grasp, hit, hole, honeycomb, imbrue, imbue, impale, impregnate, infiltrate, infuse, ingress, inject, inoculate, insert, insinuate, instill, interject, interpenetrate, interpolate, introduce, intromit, invade, jab, knife, lance, leave no void, leaven, make an entrance, make an impression, make out, make way into, melt, melt the heart, move, needle, never be forgotten, nip, numb, obsess, occupy, overrun, overspread, overswarm, pass through, perceive, percolate, perforate, perfuse, permeate, pervade, pierce, pink, plumb, pop in, prick, probe, punch, puncture, put in, rankle, reach, ream, ream out, refrigerate, register, riddle, run through, saturate, season, see, see daylight, see into, see the light, see through, seep in, sense, set in, sink in, skewer, slip in, smart, soak in, soften, spear, spike, spit, stab, steep, stick, stick in, sting, stir, strike, suffuse, swarm with, tap, teem with, temper, throw in, tincture, tinge, touch, touch a chord, transfix, transfuse, transpierce, trepan, trephine, trespass, tuck in, tumble to, uncover, understand, unravel, whip in, wise up to, work out

Etymology

From Latin penetratus, past participle of penetrare (“to put, set, or place within, enter, pierce, penetrate”) < penes (“within, with”) + -trare (as in intrare (“to go in, enter”) < intra (“within”)).

Pronunciation

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Translations

manage to get through

Arabic: اخترق (ar) (ikhtaraqa) Bengali: ঢুকানো (bn) (ḑhukano) Chinese: 深入 (shēnrù) Czech: proniknout (cs) Dutch: doordringen (nl) Esperanto: penetri (eo) Finnish: tunkeutua (fi), työntyä (fi) French: pénétrer (fr) German: durchdringen

Hungarian: beszivárog, behatol (hu) Italian: penetrare (it) Japanese: 貫通する (かんつうする, kantsū suru) Korean: 침투하다 (chimtuhada) Portuguese: penetrar (pt) Russian: проникать (pronikát’) Spanish: penetrar (es) Swedish: genomtränga (sv), penetrera (sv) Turkish: sokmak (tr)

insert a penis into an opening, such as a vagina

Bengali: ঢুকানো (bn) (ḑhukano) Dutch: penetreren (nl)

Turkish: sokmak (tr)

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Dutch: penetreren (1)

External links

• Penetrate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Penetrate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Penetrate at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Esperanto

Verb

penetrate

1. present adverbial passive participle of penetri

Pronunciation

• IPA: /penetˈrate/

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Italian

Verb

penetrate

1. second-person plural present indicative of penetrare
2. second-person plural imperative of penetrare
3. Feminine plural of penetrato

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Latin

Verb

penētrāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of penētrō