Synonyms for penetrate
Most common
reach sink in get across fall into place permeate pervade pierce
Synonyms by meaning
Verb
1. Reach
reach, get through informal, sink in, get across, fall into place, sink, come home, dawn, click
2. Permeate
permeate, pervade, diffuse, imbue, riddle, interpenetrate, transpierce
3. Pierce
Definitions
- v. 1
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
Light penetrates darkness.
- v. 2
To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
- v. 3
To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
to penetrate one's heart with pity
Related words
- Word family
- penetrable penetration
Forms
- Past participle
- penetrated
e.g. penetrated → reached, dawned, clicked, permeated…
Example sentences
- reach I placed the medicine out of the children's reach.
- click Ziri and Rima didn't really click with each other.
- dawn Dawn, to the poet Yeats, is "the brightening air."
- permeate Hatred seems to permeate every corner of society these days.
By length
- 3 letters
- tap1
- 4 letters
- dawn1, sink1, bore1
- 5 letters
- reach1, click1, enter2, stick1, drill1, imbue2
- 6 letters
- bottom2, strike1, pierce1, riddle2, fathom2, impale2
- 7 letters
- diffuse2, discern2, pervade2, ransack2
- 8 letters
- permeate3, transfix2
- 9 letters
- perforate3
- 10 letters
- understand3, comprehend3, infiltrate3
- 11 letters
- transpierce
- 14 letters
- interpenetrate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (enter2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- pénétrer
- Español
- penetrar
- Deutsch
- durchdringen
- Català
- penetrar