Verb

(penetrat)

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.

Light penetrates darkness.

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(figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.

I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.

* Ray

things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate

To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.

to penetrate one's heart with pity

* M. Arnold

The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.

(Shakespeare)

To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.

To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (rfex)

Verb

(ergative) To change (or to be changed) from a solid state to a liquid state, usually by a gradual heat.

I melted butter to make a cake.

When the weather is warm, the snowman will disappear; he will melt .

(figuratively) To dissolve, disperse, vanish.

His troubles melted away.

(figurative) To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.

* Shakespeare

Thou would'st have melted down thy youth.

* Dryden

For pity melts the mind to love.

(colloquial) To be very hot and sweat profusely.

Help me! I'm melting !