penetrates

Meaning of penetrates

verb
  1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
    Light penetrates darkness.
  2. To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
    I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
  3. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
    to penetrate one's heart with pity
  4. To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
  5. To insert the penis into an opening, such as a vagina or anus.
    a male elephant comes up and penetrates the female elephant
  6. To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.

Information about penetrates

  • It is a verb.
  • The singular form of penetrates is: penetrate.
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Hyphenation of penetrates

pen-e-trates

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • penetrates is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

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