Penetrate vs Fierce - What's the difference?
penetrate | fierce |
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
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(figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
* Ray
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
* M. Arnold
To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus. (rfex)
Extremely violent, severe, ferocious or savage.
Resolute or strenuously active.
Threatening in appearance or demeanor.
(slang, Ireland, rural) very, excellent.
(slang, US) Of exceptional quality, exhibiting boldness or chutzpah.
As a verb penetrate
is to enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.As an adjective fierce is
extremely violent, severe, ferocious or savage.penetrate
English
(Penetration)Verb
(penetrat)- Light penetrates darkness.
- 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.
- (Shakespeare)
Derived terms
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English
Adjective
(er)- A fierce storm battered the coast.
- We made a fierce attempt to escape.
- The lion gave a fierce roar.
- It was fierce cold.
- Q: "How was the party last night?" A: "Fierce !"
- Tyra said to strike a pose and make it fierce .