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

(en verb)

To pierce; penetrate; run through; stab.

*1815 , Thomas Nash, Christ's tears over Jerusalem :

Yea, though Christ from the skies hold out never so moving lures unto us, all of them (haggard like) we will turn tail to, and haste to the iron fist, that holds out nought but a knife to enthrill us.

To cause to thrill.

*1839 , George Robert Wythen Baxter, Baron George Gordon Byron Byron, Don Juan Junior :

[...] for then a glance from her she knew, Could inthrill his heart, enrapture and control [...]

*1890 , William Clark Russell, A marriage at sea :

Long years ago, amid the sunny hills Where Arno dashing makes the maddest mirth, A master lived whose melody enthrills , And ever will, the children of the earth.

(sex) To copulate; have sexual intercourse.

*1867 , Mrs. Henry Wood, Lady Adelaide's oath :

She's getting enthrilled by him; she is, my lord. I saw 'em meet just now in the wood.