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Penetrate vs Unpenetrated - What's the difference?

penetrate | unpenetrated |

As a verb penetrate

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

As an adjective unpenetrated is

not penetrated.

penetrate

English

(Penetration)

Verb

(penetrat)
  • To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
    • Light penetrates darkness.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1879, title=The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph
    • , author=Th Du Moncel, page=166, publisher=Harper , passage=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.}}
  • (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)

    • Derived terms

    * penetration * penetrable

    External links

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    unpenetrated

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Not penetrated.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1831, author=Thomas Carlyle, title=Sartor Resartus, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and battle with innumerable wolves, and did not entirely forbear strong liquor, rioting, and even theft; whom, notwithstanding, the peaceful Sower will follow, and, as he cuts the boundless harvest, bless." }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1916, author=Fedor Jagor; Tomas de Comyn; Chas. Wilkes; Rudolf Virchow., title=The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Both in Central America and in Orinoco there yet are many unpenetrated forests which are almost entirely composed of wild cacao-trees. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1910, author=Claud Field, title=Mystics and Saints of Islam, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage="We asked him to explain more precisely the situation of this fountain, and he said: 'You are doubtless aware that perpetual darkness surrounds the pole unpenetrated by any ray of light till God permits. }}