penetrate

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From Latin penetratus, pp. of penetrare (to put, set, or place within, enter, pierce, penetrate) < penes (within, with) + -trare (as in intrare (to go in, enter) < intra (within)).

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Infinitive
to penetrate

Third person singular
penetrates

Simple past
penetrated

Past participle
penetrated

Present participle
penetrating

to penetrate (third-person singular simple present penetrates, present participle penetrating, simple past and past participle penetrated)

  1. Manage to enter into.
    • 1879, Th Du Moncel, The Telephone, the Microphone and the Phonograph, Harper, page 166:
      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.
  2. To insert a penis into an opening, such as a vagina.

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  • IPA: /penetˈrate/

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penetrate

  1. present adverbial passive participle of penetri

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penetrate

  1. Second-person plural present tense of penetrare.
  2. Second-person plural imperative of penetrare.
  3. Feminine plural of penetrato.