The Collaborative International Dictionary
Infiltrate \In*fil"trate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Infiltrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Infiltrating.] [Pref. in- + filtrate: cf. F, s'infiltrer. Cf. Infilter.]
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To enter by penetrating the pores or interstices of a substance; to filter into or through something.
The water infiltrates through the porous rock.
--Addison. To enter secretly (into an organization, territory, etc.) for hostile purposes, such as spying or sabotage; as, the FBI infiltrated into the U. S. communist party's upper echelons; also used transitively; as, to infiltrate the opponent's organization; to infiltrate one's agents into a hostile country.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: infiltrate)
Usage examples of "infiltrated".
One of the chatters knew that not long after the war began Diewerge had become manager of the Reich radio station in Danzig, and another had information on his doings in the postwar period: as the crony of other Nazi bigwigs, such as Achenbach, who became a Free Democratic member of the Bundestag, Diewerge allegedly infiltrated the liberal party of Nordrhein-Westfalen.
Once trained, the Contras were to be infiltrated across the border intoNicaraguato bring down the Sandinista regime.
What if the federal security boys had infiltrated the Gaters and were instigating this renewed outbreak of Gater activity?
From this point the hubs are in hands friendly to your enemies and the colonies are heavily infiltrated.
They know that morphs had even infiltrated the home of one of their most important Controllers -- Chapman.
The disease is not myxedema because there is no peculiar physiognomy, no spade-like hands nor infiltrated skin, no alteration of the speech, etc.
God of the universe, he found most of his master systems infiltrated by alien programs of what he called the Other.
Grand Ayatollah Sistani, the real Shiite power center in Iraq, was in London for medical treatment, and Moqtada had infiltrated his people into the city of Najaf and eventually into the holiest of Shiite shrines, the Imam Ali Mosque.
It is a fact that hundreds of agents of this blood-soaked ideology became top advisors to Democratic presidents, worked on the Manhattan Project, infiltrated every segment of the United States government.
Agents ultimately infiltrated the ring, posed as middlemen, accompanied poachers on hunts, that sort of thing.
The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Galean men who had infiltrated the enemy camp in the uniforms of the sentries, ran past.
With her mind so fixated on the image of the little Caspar she had adored, it was hard not to feel proud of him even if he had infiltrated the Archduchy under an alias.
Their mandate was to find and destroy the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese who had infiltrated the villages and who continuously intimidated the frightened peasants.
But every English Telecom exchange computer in the country had been infiltrated with a catchment program that would 'slot the caller directly into the circuit.