Synonymer

Uttal

  • UttalUS
Översättning
Verb
1.genomtränga
2.penetrera

Definitioner

Verb

  1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
  2. (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
  3. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
  4. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
  5. To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.

Exempel

  • Light penetrates darkness.
  • He takes the prepared charcoal used by artists, brings it to a white heat, and suddenly plunges it in a bath of mercury, of which the globules instantly penetrate the pores of charcoal, and may be said to metallize it.
  • I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
  • things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate
  • to penetrate one's heart with pity
  • The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticippenetrated
Imperfektpenetrated
Presensparticippenetrating
Tredje person singular indicativ presenspenetrates