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Penetrated

Penetrate \Pen"e*trate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Penetrated; p. pr. & vb. n. Penetrating.] [L. penetratus, p. p. of penetrare to penetrate; akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the power of, penus store of food, innermost part of a temple.]

  1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

  2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity.
    --Shak.

    The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style.
    --M. Arnold.

  3. To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to comprehend; to understand.

    Things which here were too subtile for us to penetrate.
    --Ray.

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penetrated

vb. (en-past of: penetrate)

Usage examples of "penetrated".

We do have interstellar travel, but I cannot believe my race has penetrated to your section of space.

When we finally penetrated one of their depots here on Lothar [I realized he was using the historic "we"], we began the long struggle to free ourselves and our planet of this terrible scourge.

The eastern continent, over which we flew, was more mountainous and larger, the western one, a vast rolling plain ringed with bluffs and precipices, periodically penetrated by navigable rivers and deep lagoons.

I watched as the helpless section was set upon by a double row of our vessels, turned into a new course as Ertoi and Glan pilots penetrated to the control rooms and altered the courses for the naval satellite bases and the one planetary space installation in the southern sea.

It was the slip of the stylus across the metal that had penetrated my sleep.

The forest animals and birds were waking as the sun penetrated the gloom of the forest.

His brilliant green eyes, slowly moving from face to face, were oddly gentle and very searching, as if they had long since penetrated life's ironies and weird humors.

Todd's idea of a whisper penetrated to the hushed spectators on the porch.

Then the ship's nose penetrated the cloud layer of the planet's atmosphere.

A thin spot ol light penetrated the clouds, striking the ground in front of them, and they ducked behind the bushes.

His voice, soft again, nevertheless penetrated the ringing cheers that reverberated inside and outside the Hall at this much-longed-for reappeal ance.

I believe that most of you have penetrated the fifty-year mark of that era.

While they ate slowly and appreciatively, Varian related the adventures she and Kai had had, and their conclusion that the heavyworlders had penetrated to the giffs' territory.

Otherwise the mold that had penetrated and thrived in the console interior would have covered her face.

Although Rianav knew that nothing could have penetrated the force screen that surrounded the dome, it made her uneasy that no watch had been kept on what was, after all, a hostile planet.