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

(ejaculat)

Of a male, to eject semen (or, of a female, vaginal fluid) during an orgasm.

To eject abruptly; to throw out suddenly and swiftly.

* Blackmore

Its active rays ejaculated thence.

To say abruptly.

* , Episode 16

--Half a crown, Stephen responded. I daresay he needs it to sleep somewhere.

--Needs! Mr Bloom ejaculated , professing not the least surprise at the intelligence, I can quite credit the assertion and I guarantee he invariably does.