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penetrate, perforateverb
pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
«The bullet penetrated her chest»
Synonyms:
punch, click, imbue, riddle, dawn, infiltrate, permeate, perforate, diffuse, sink in, come home, get through, bottom, fall into place, fathom, pervade, get across, interpenetrate -
penetrate, fathom, bottomverb
come to understand
Synonyms:
click, imbue, riddle, dawn, infiltrate, permeate, perforate, diffuse, sink in, come home, get through, bottom, fall into place, fathom, sound, pervade, get across, interpenetrate -
click, get through, dawn, come home, get across, sink in, penetrate, fall into placeverb
become clear or enter one’s consciousness or emotions
«It dawned on him that she had betrayed him»; «she was penetrated with sorrow»
Synonyms:
pass over, put over, get over, flick, wrap up, come through, percolate, contact, pervade, cut across, infiltrate, bottom, snap, finish up, tick, reach, interpenetrate, permeate, get hold of, finish off, polish off, cut through, mop up, fall into place, cluck, filter, come home, while away, perforate, traverse, dawn, click, diffuse, sink in, clear up, cover, cross, riddle, get across, fathom, chatter, imbue, get through, track, clack -
infiltrate, penetrateverb
enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
«The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor»
Synonyms:
click, imbue, pass through, dawn, infiltrate, permeate, perforate, diffuse, sink in, riddle, come home, get through, bottom, fall into place, fathom, pervade, get across, interpenetrate -
penetrateverb
make one’s way deeper into or through
«The hikers did not manage to penetrate the dense forest»
Synonyms:
click, imbue, riddle, dawn, infiltrate, permeate, perforate, diffuse, sink in, come home, get through, bottom, fall into place, fathom, pervade, get across, interpenetrate -
penetrateverb
insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
«Did the molester penetrate the child?»
Synonyms:
click, imbue, riddle, dawn, infiltrate, permeate, perforate, diffuse, sink in, come home, get through, bottom, fall into place, fathom, pervade, get across, interpenetrate -
permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddleverb
spread or diffuse through
«An atmosphere of distrust has permeated this administration»; «music penetrated the entire building»; «His campaign was riddled with accusations and personal attacks»
Synonyms:
fall into place, circulate, spread, infiltrate, interpenetrate, sink in, soak, bottom, disperse, circularize, propagate, pass around, riddle, spread out, filter, come home, disseminate, perforate, dawn, hue, click, diffuse, broadcast, screen, distribute, percolate, fan out, circularise, get across, fathom, imbue, get through, permeate, pervade
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pierce, puncture, make a hole in
a stick into
the addict will sometimes penetrate his arm with a syringe to inject drugs directly into his blood stream.
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Jamie McMichael-Phillips:
One of the huge challenges we have is quite simply physics, unlike mapping the Earth’s surface where we can use a camera [ or ] satellites, at sea, light does not penetrate through the water column. So we’re pretty much limited to using sonar systems.
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John Shier:
It looks like they are trying to be more purposeful, so they’re breaching companies, understanding exactly what company they breached and trying to penetrate as fully as possible, so that they can then extract as much money as possible.
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Elizabeth Mullans:
It is easy to believe that once we are indoors that we are protected from the sun, not all glass is created equally. It is important to apply daily SPF 30 or higher because harmful UVA rays can penetrate windows.
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Søren Kierkegaard:
Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world.
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Vladimir Airapetian:
In our paper, we have shown that a super Carrington-type CME event would have greatly compressed the magnetic field, this would ignite huge electric currents on Earth and let energetic particles penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere and surface.
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perforate
pierce, action
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infiltrate
permeate, pierce
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permeate
pierce, pervade
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pervade
pierce, permeate
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fathom
understand, grasp
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enter
pierce, infiltrate
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pierce
action, enter
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get through
get, register
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diffuse
seep
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puncture
action, enter
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imbue
permeate, pervade
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grasp
understand, understand or be understood
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comprehend
understand, grasp
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sink in
register, understand or be understood
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stab
jab, impale
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discern
understand, notice
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saturate
permeate, filter into
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seep
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understand
grasp
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suffuse
permeate, pervade
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percolate
seep, filter into
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riddle
punch
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prick
action, perforate
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impregnate
pervade
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invade
infiltrate
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drill
perforate
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apprehend
notice, understand
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probe
activity, explore
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soak
seep, percolate
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bore
drill, punch
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perceive
understand or be understood
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impale
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transfix
impale
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get across
understand or be understood
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interpenetrate
pervade
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decipher
grasp, understand or be understood
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spear
impale
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infuse
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work out
grasp
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unravel
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- crack
- drill
- enter
- go through
- infiltrate
- invade
- pass through
- permeate
- pervade
- puncture
- seep
- access
- bayonet
- bore
- charge
- come
- diffuse
- drive
- encroach
- force
- gore
- impale
- insert
- insinuate
- introduce
- jab
- knife
- percolate
- perforate
- prick
- probe
- ream
- saturate
- spear
- stab
- suffuse
- thrust
- trespass
- barge in
- blow in
- break in
- breeze in
- bust in
- eat through
- filter in
- get in
- ingress
- make a hole
- make an entrance
- pop in
- run into
- sink into
- stick into
- affect
- fathom
- get through
- touch
- comprehend
- decipher
- discern
- grasp
- impress
- perceive
- unravel
- become clear
- come across
- figure out
- get across
- get over
- get to the bottom
- put over
- see through
- sink in
- soak in
- work out
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- misunderstand
- neglect
- overlook
- exit
- misconstrue
- take out
- withdraw
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Meanwhile, a group of researchers from Cornell have used the consortium’s computing boost to simulate for the first time precisely how and where the virus penetrates the human cell.
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WORDS RELATED TO PENETRATE
- afflicted
- annoyed
- bent one’s ear
- bothered
- burned out
- cloyed
- discomforted
- dragged
- exhausted
- fatigued
- irked
- irritated
- jaded
- palled
- pestered
- put to sleep
- sent to sleep
- talked one’s ear off
- tired
- troubled
- turned one off
- vexed
- was tedious
- wearied
- wore
- wore out
- worried
- afflict
- burden
- choke
- clog
- commit
- cram
- crowd
- cumber
- encumber
- entrust
- fill
- heap
- impregnate
- instill
- lade
- pack
- penetrate
- permeate
- pervade
- pile
- ram
- saddle
- saturate
- suffuse
- transfuse
- weigh
- audit
- behold
- consider
- examine
- eye
- inspect
- notice
- observe
- peer
- penetrate
- peruse
- pierce
- pore over
- probe
- pry
- regard
- scan
- scrutinize
- see
- stare at
- study
- survey
- view
- witness
- aims
- aspire to
- brood over
- chews over
- considers
- cools out
- deliberates
- designs
- envisages
- excogitates
- expects
- foresees
- intends
- kicks around
- means
- meditates on
- minds
- mull over
- muse over
- observes
- percolates
- perpends
- ponders
- proposes
- purposes
- reflects upon
- ruminates
- size up
- speculates
- studies
- takes in
- thinks of
- weighs
- amputate
- behead
- bisect
- bite
- carve
- chine
- chip
- chisel
- cleave
- clip
- crop
- curtail
- dice
- dispatch
- dissect
- dissever
- divide
- facet
- fell
- flitch
- gash
- guillotine
- hack
- hash
- hew
- intersect
- lacerate
- lay open
- level
- lop
- massacre
- mince
- mow
- mow down
- nick
- notch
- part
- penetrate
- perforate
- pierce
- prune
- puncture
- quarter
- rabbet
- raze
- reap
- rend
- rip
- rive
- saber
- saw
- scarify
- scissor
- score
- scythe
- separate
- shave
- shear
- sickle
- skive
- slash
- slaughter
- slay
- slice
- slit
- sliver
- snip
- cascade
- cataract
- cave in
- coast
- collapse
- crash
- crouch
- decline
- deplane
- detrain
- dip
- disembark
- dismount
- dive
- dribble
- drop
- fall
- fall prostrate
- get down
- get off
- go down
- gravitate
- ground
- incline
- light
- lose balance
- penetrate
- pitch
- plop
- plummet
- plunge
- prolapse
- set
- settle
- sink
- slant
- slide
- slip
- slope
- slough off
- slump
- stoop
- stumble
- submerge
- subside
- swoop
- toboggan
- topple
- trickle
- trip
- tumble
- weep
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apprehend, bayonet, behold, bore, bottom, en.synonym.one, burst, claw, click, come home, comprehend, cut, dawn, differentiate, diffuse, dig, discern, discriminate, distinguish, drill, enter, explore, fall into place, fathom, filter, find out, en.synonym.one, freeze, gash, get across, get through, go into, gore, grasp, hole, hypnotize, imbue, immobilize, impale, incise, infiltrate, infuse, inject, insert, interpenetrate, investigate, judge, knife, know, lance, make out, note, en.synonym.one, paralyze, percolate, perforate, permeate, pervade, pierce, pierce through, pin, prick, probe, punch, puncture, riddle, rummage, run through, saturate, score, scratch, search, seek, seep, sense, shove, sink, sink in, soak, spear, stab, stick, stick through, thrust, transfix, trickle, tunnel, wound.
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[ pˈɛnɪtɹˌe͡ɪt], [ pˈɛnɪtɹˌeɪt], [ p_ˈɛ_n_ɪ_t_ɹ_ˌeɪ_t]
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adj.
• infest (adjective)
- filler,
- crawler,
- infect,
- packer,
- Teemer,
- over spread,
- flocker,
- overspread,
- Presser,
- swarmer,
- worrier,
- Crowder,
- harrier,
- teem,
- be set.
• Other relevant words: (adjective)
- infest.
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n.
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- double agent,
- bug,
- agent,
- seep,
- collaborator,
- counterintelligence,
- collaboration,
- collaborate,
- industrial espionage,
- espionage.
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- get out,
- come out,
- appear,
- leak out,
- emerge,
- get around,
- discern,
- comprehend,
- perceive,
- grasp.
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- sleep together,
- break,
- bed,
- jump into bed with someone,
- make love,
- sleep with,
- lie with,
- consummate,
- spend the night with someone,
- be intimate with someone.
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- go in,
- push,
- squeeze,
- fight your way,
- bulldoze,
- come in,
- put in.
• click (noun)
- click.
• come home (noun)
- come home.
• dawn (noun)
- dawn.
• diffuse (noun)
- diffuse.
• fall into place (noun)
- fall into place.
• get across (noun)
- get across.
• get in (noun)
- get.
• get through (noun)
- get through.
• imbue (noun)
- imbue.
• Other relevant words: (noun)
- jab,
- notice.
• penetrate (noun)
- bottom.
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v.
• bore (verb)
- gouging out.
• charge (verb)
- in stilling,
- in stilled,
- in-stilled,
- in-stilling.
• contact (verb)
- penetrate.
• contemplate (verb)
- stares at,
- be-held,
- pored over,
- in spect,
- in-spect,
- be holds,
- in spects,
- be holding,
- re-gard,
- re gards,
- in-spects,
- staring at,
- be-hold,
- pores over,
- be-holds,
- be-holding.
• cut (verb)
- dis-patching,
- re aped,
- dis patches,
- re-aped,
- chining,
- Sabered,
- be heading,
- dis severed,
- dis patching,
- dis sever,
- re aping,
- be-heading,
- dis patch,
- Flitched,
- Flitching,
- be heads,
- dis-severing,
- dis-severed,
- re-aping,
- dis severs,
- facetting,
- dis severing,
- Sabering,
- be-headed,
- dis patched,
- dis-patched,
- be headed,
- dis-patches,
- be-heads,
- lays open,
- dis-severs,
- dis-sever,
- dis-patch.
• descend (verb)
- de-scending,
- de-cline,
- de train,
- pro-lapses,
- in-cline,
- de-clines,
- dis-mounts,
- de trains,
- de trained,
- de-trained,
- dis-embarking,
- dis mount,
- lost balance,
- dis mounting,
- pro lapsed,
- deplanes,
- dis-mount,
- falling prostrate,
- dis embark,
- top pled,
- de planed,
- dis-embarked,
- de scended,
- in clines,
- de-planed,
- sub-sided,
- sub merging,
- dis-embarks,
- de-scended,
- dis embarking,
- dis-mounting,
- de-plane,
- dis mounted,
- de scend,
- sub merge,
- de-trains,
- sub-sides,
- sub merges,
- de-planing,
- de-scend,
- de cline,
- de-planes,
- sub side,
- sub-merges,
- sub-merged,
- falls prostrate,
- pro lapse,
- de plane,
- loses balance,
- pro lapsing,
- caved in,
- de-train,
- de planes,
- sub sided,
- dis embarks,
- in cline,
- pro-lapsing,
- de clines,
- sloughing off,
- sub sides,
- de scends,
- pro lapses,
- in-clines,
- dis-embark,
- top-pled,
- dis mounts,
- sub-siding,
- fell prostrate,
- de planing,
- sub-side,
- sub siding,
- sloughed off,
- losing balance,
- dis-mounted,
- dis embarked,
- sub merged,
- de-training,
- pro-lapsed,
- de scending,
- de-scends,
- pro-lapse,
- de training,
- sub-merge,
- sub-merging.
• dig (verb)
- scooping out,
- pro-duces,
- ex hume,
- dis covering,
- ex-hume,
- un-earths,
- de pressed,
- scooped out,
- un earths,
- un-earthing,
- pro duce,
- un-earthed,
- forking out,
- digs down,
- under-mined,
- un-earth,
- forks out,
- dis cover,
- dug down,
- un-covering,
- un-covers,
- un cover,
- un earthing,
- de presses,
- under mining,
- dis covered,
- un covers,
- un covered,
- de-presses,
- pro duces,
- de-press,
- de-pressing,
- under mined,
- dis-cover,
- un-cover,
- dis covers,
- de pressing,
- under-mining,
- de press,
- roots out,
- digging down,
- ex-cavate,
- scoops out,
- go in to,
- un earth,
- un covering,
- rooted out,
- dis-covering,
- digged down,
- ex cavate,
- de-pressed,
- dis-covers,
- un earthed,
- dis-covered.
• drill (verb)
- sunk in,
- sank in,
- sinks in.
• enter (verb)
- moves in,
- intro duces,
- pops in,
- makes way,
- drave in,
- falling into,
- piles in,
- jumped in,
- wormed in,
- bursted in,
- in sinuating,
- gaining entree,
- in sert,
- gain entree,
- breezes in,
- in sinuates,
- popping in,
- fell into,
- worms in,
- fell in to,
- passed in to,
- pass in to,
- crowding in,
- bursting in,
- made an entrance,
- busted in,
- jumps in,
- working in,
- passing in to,
- blew in,
- piling in,
- bursts in,
- making entrance,
- jumping in,
- piled in,
- drove in,
- makes an entrance,
- intro-duce,
- moved in,
- crowds in,
- rushes in,
- makes entrance,
- busting in,
- made entrance,
- in-sinuate,
- worming in,
- falling in to,
- passed into,
- gained entree,
- crowded in,
- falls in to,
- wrought in,
- breezing in,
- passes into,
- passes in to,
- falls into,
- intro duce,
- passing into,
- setting foot in,
- rushing in,
- in-sert,
- blows in,
- made way,
- driving in,
- breezed in,
- drives in,
- intro-duces,
- making an entrance,
- sets foot in,
- in sinuated,
- rushed in,
- works in,
- busts in,
- in-sinuating,
- in-sinuates,
- gains entree,
- make entrance,
- fall in to,
- in sinuate.
• fathom (verb)
- gets to bottom,
- gat to bottom,
- gotten bottom,
- cognizing,
- gat the bottom,
- re cognized,
- gets bottom,
- gat bottom,
- getting bottom,
- got to bottom,
- un ravelled,
- got bottom,
- cognized,
- gotten to the bottom,
- get the bottom,
- re-cognized,
- get to bottom,
- gotten the bottom,
- re-cognizing,
- un-ravel,
- un raveling,
- gets to the bottom,
- un raveled,
- re cognize,
- getting the bottom,
- un-ravelling,
- un-ravelled,
- re cognizes,
- cognizes,
- gat to the bottom,
- un-raveled,
- getting to bottom,
- figures out,
- getting to the bottom,
- un ravels,
- un-raveling,
- un ravel,
- got the bottom,
- gets the bottom,
- gotten to bottom,
- un-ravels,
- get bottom,
- re cognizing,
- un ravelling,
- got to the bottom.
• ferret out (verb)
- drave out,
- drove out,
- dis closes,
- am to,
- dis closed,
- smokes out,
- digged up,
- sniffing out,
- smelling out,
- wormed out,
- was on to,
- dis-closes,
- worms out,
- smelled out,
- dis-closed,
- nosed out,
- smelt out,
- picks up on,
- were to,
- art to,
- sniffed out,
- chases down,
- dis-close,
- chased down,
- noses out,
- hunted down,
- sniffs out,
- scouts out,
- wert to,
- digs out,
- ex tract,
- hunts down,
- hunting down,
- smells out,
- picking upon,
- are to,
- nosing out,
- searches out,
- picked upon,
- are on to,
- is to,
- is on to,
- dis-closing,
- smoked out,
- bring light,
- scouted out,
- wast on to,
- being on to,
- wert on to,
- were on to,
- wast to,
- dis closing,
- digging out,
- pick upon,
- chasing down,
- smoking out,
- be to,
- scouting out,
- dug out,
- was to,
- ex-tract,
- picked up on,
- digged out,
- am on to,
- being to,
- dis close,
- ex-tracts,
- worming out,
- picks upon.
• filter (verb)
- dis tills,
- Osmoses,
- re fines,
- re fined,
- dis tilling,
- dis-tilled,
- dis-tills,
- metastasizes,
- osmosed,
- re-fining,
- re-fines,
- metastasizing,
- soaks through,
- dis-till,
- osmosing,
- soaking through,
- re-fine,
- dis tilled,
- dis-tilling,
- re fine,
- dis till,
- soaked through.
• get in (verb)
- getting inside,
- inter pose,
- gains ingress,
- re aching,
- re-ached,
- got inside,
- gotten inside,
- inter posing,
- gat inside,
- inter-posing,
- re-aching,
- gained ingress,
- inter-pose,
- gaining ingress,
- re ached,
- gets inside,
- inter posed,
- inter-posed.
• guess (verb)
- happened up on,
- taking stab at,
- happening upon,
- dare says,
- jumped to a conclusion,
- dare said,
- lumps it,
- jumped a conclusion,
- happening up on,
- go out limb,
- goes out limb,
- de-duce,
- went out limb,
- going out a limb,
- jumped conclusion,
- jumping a conclusion,
- pre tend,
- be lieve,
- takes shot at,
- lumped it,
- go out a limb,
- happens upon,
- jumps to a conclusion,
- taking shot at,
- jumps a conclusion,
- de duce,
- goes out on a limb,
- guesstimating,
- pre-tended,
- guesstimates,
- jumping to conclusion,
- goes out on limb,
- takes a stab at,
- jump to conclusion,
- sur mise,
- took shot at,
- sur-mises,
- jumped to conclusion,
- pre-dict,
- takes stab at,
- took a shot at,
- jumps to conclusion,
- be-lieve,
- pre-tends,
- sur mises,
- went out a limb,
- takes a shot at,
- happen up on,
- going out on a limb,
- thought likely,
- take stab at,
- thinking likely,
- jump a conclusion,
- lumping it,
- taking a stab at,
- jumps conclusion,
- dare saying,
- sur-mise,
- de duces,
- sizes up,
- jumping conclusion,
- went out on limb,
- jump conclusion,
- going out limb,
- goes out a limb,
- sized up,
- pre tends,
- pre-tending,
- de-duces,
- pre dict,
- pre tending,
- happens up on,
- took a stab at,
- took stab at,
- jumping to a conclusion,
- taking a shot at,
- take shot at,
- thinks likely,
- went out on a limb,
- going out on limb.
• infiltrate (verb)
- works in to,
- worms in to,
- in filtrates,
- wrought in to,
- in filtrated,
- worked into,
- in-filtrate,
- sneaks in,
- in-filtrated,
- sneaked in,
- worms into,
- edging in,
- filtering through,
- edges in,
- in filtrate,
- in-filtrates,
- wormed in to,
- worm in to,
- wrought into,
- work in to,
- worming in to,
- snuck in,
- edged in,
- in-filtrating,
- filters through,
- working in to,
- in filtrating,
- working into,
- filtered through,
- worming into,
- wormed into,
- works into,
- worked in to.
• infuse (verb)
- impregnate,
- infuse,
- seethe,
- suffuse,
- fill,
- glut,
- instill.
• insert (verb)
- interpose,
- implant,
- embed,
- intrude,
- inset,
- insinuate,
- insert,
- inject,
- lodge,
- introduce.
• invade (verb)
- in roads,
- inter-fere,
- over swarm,
- in road,
- over running,
- makes inroads,
- over runs,
- descend up on,
- over swarmed,
- over swarms,
- made inroads,
- in-fringes,
- over-spreads,
- swarmed over,
- over-swarm,
- muscles in,
- muscled in,
- swarming over,
- in-fringe,
- over swarming,
- over spreads,
- falls on,
- in-fringed,
- descended up on,
- in-road,
- muscling in,
- swarms over,
- inter fere,
- descended upon,
- over spreading,
- over-swarming,
- overswarms,
- inter feres,
- over-spreading,
- descending upon,
- over-swarmed,
- in fringe,
- in fringed,
- in fringes,
- inter-feres,
- falling on,
- in-roads,
- making inroads,
- descends upon,
- over-swarms,
- overswarmed,
- descends up on,
- descending up on.
• lance (verb)
- sticks into,
- cuts in to,
- cuts into,
- cut in to,
- cutting in to,
- sticked into,
- stuck in to,
- sticking in to,
- stuck into,
- sticks in to,
- stick in to,
- sticked in to,
- cutting into,
- sticking into.
• open (verb)
- un folded,
- un blocked,
- un-stops,
- un wrap,
- un shuts,
- un-tied,
- un clad,
- un clothes,
- un stopping,
- un bolts,
- came apart,
- dis play,
- un latch,
- un does,
- un-rolls,
- un block,
- unclosing,
- kicks in,
- un-fastening,
- un-bolted,
- un-fastened,
- un-latches,
- un-corked,
- un-tying,
- un seal,
- un wrapped,
- un bolted,
- un-shutting,
- un-lock,
- un clothing,
- re-leased,
- un barring,
- un closed,
- un-folding,
- un bars,
- un roll,
- re-veal,
- un bolt,
- comes apart,
- un clothed,
- un-sealing,
- un-did,
- un-bolting,
- dis-playing,
- un-locking,
- un-blocked,
- un corking,
- un-clad,
- un-clothed,
- un-bolts,
- un done,
- un-clothing,
- un closes,
- un stops,
- un-latching,
- un shut,
- un-wrap,
- un-blocks,
- un fastens,
- uncloses,
- un-roll,
- un-seals,
- re-lease,
- un sealing,
- un furled,
- un folds,
- un fasten,
- un shutting,
- un latches,
- un-fastens,
- un rolling,
- un seals,
- throwing wide,
- re veals,
- un wrapping,
- un cork,
- un tying,
- un-closes,
- un-stopping,
- re-veals,
- dis-play,
- un locks,
- dis plays,
- un-corks,
- un-rolled,
- throws wide,
- un-corking,
- un-fasten,
- un-barring,
- un-bars,
- un locking,
- un-clothe,
- re-leases,
- un stop,
- un-closing,
- un rolled,
- un bar,
- un-does,
- un barred,
- un bolting,
- un fold,
- un-shuts,
- un-sealed,
- un doing,
- unstops,
- un did,
- threw wide,
- un locked,
- un wraps,
- un latching,
- re leases,
- un blocking,
- kicking in,
- un rolls,
- un fastened,
- un corks,
- un sealed,
- un-folded,
- un-furling,
- un stopped,
- un-closed,
- un-doing,
- un latched,
- un-block,
- un blocks,
- un-folds,
- re lease,
- dis-plays,
- un-blocking,
- un-wraps,
- un-barred,
- kicked in,
- un corked,
- un-stopped,
- un folding,
- un clothe,
- un furling,
- un fastening,
- un closing,
- un-close,
- dis playing,
- unshutted,
- un-bolt,
- dis-played,
- un-cork,
- unshutting,
- unshuts,
- un-stop,
- un-rolling,
- un-latched,
- un-locks,
- un-latch,
- un-bar,
- un-locked,
- gapping,
- un tied,
- un-wrapping,
- dis played,
- un lock,
- un-seal,
- un-furled,
- un-clothes,
- un-fold,
- un-wrapped,
- un close,
- un-shut.
• perforate (verb)
- needle,
- spike,
- point,
- punch,
- spear,
- poke,
- pierce,
- skewer,
- gouge.
• permeate (verb)
- in-fused,
- inter-fused,
- in fusing,
- in grain,
- inter-fuses,
- in graining,
- inter fuses,
- in-grains,
- in-fuse,
- in fuses,
- in-grain,
- inter-fusing,
- interfuses,
- in-graining,
- inter fuse,
- in-grained,
- inter-fuse,
- inter fused,
- in-fusing,
- inter fusing,
- in fused.
• pervade (verb)
- ex tending,
- ex-tended,
- ex tend,
- ex-tend,
- ex tended,
- ex-tending,
- ex tends,
- ex-tends.
• pierce; get through physically (verb)
- force,
- eat through,
- bayonet,
- come,
- filter in,
- drive,
- break in,
- ream,
- encroach,
- barge in,
- impale,
- make a hole,
- sink into,
- knife,
- run into,
- ingress,
- prick,
- thrust,
- go through,
- crack,
- access.
• plumb (verb)
- gets bottom of,
- getting the bottom of,
- gotten the bottom of,
- get bottom of,
- gat to bottom of,
- got to bottom of,
- gets the bottom of,
- gat bottom of,
- gat to the bottom of,
- gotten to the bottom of,
- got the bottom of,
- took soundings,
- gets to the bottom of,
- got to the bottom of,
- taking soundings,
- takes soundings,
- gets to bottom of,
- getting bottom of,
- gotten bottom of,
- gotten to bottom of,
- get to bottom of,
- got bottom of,
- getting to the bottom of,
- gat the bottom of,
- get the bottom of,
- getting to bottom of.
• probe (verb)
- looksees,
- look-sees,
- in-quired,
- feels out,
- in-quiring,
- tests the waters,
- checking over,
- lookseeing,
- putting out a feeler,
- testing waters,
- look sees,
- testing the waters,
- look in to,
- delving in to,
- look-seeing,
- tested waters,
- look saw,
- delving into,
- in quiring,
- test waters,
- tested the waters,
- pro spect,
- puts out feeler,
- checking up,
- feeling around,
- feels around,
- pro-spects,
- pro spects,
- delved in to,
- look-saw,
- checks up,
- delved into,
- tests waters,
- felt out,
- sounds out,
- felt around,
- checks over,
- putting out feeler,
- checked up,
- looksee,
- delves into,
- in-quires,
- pro bed,
- look seeing,
- put out feeler,
- pro-bed,
- looksaw,
- in quired,
- delves in to,
- in-quire,
- delve in to,
- in quires,
- puts out a feeler,
- in quire.
• puncture (verb)
- cuts through,
- going flat,
- cutting through,
- went flat,
- goes flat.
• saturate (verb)
- over-filling,
- over filled,
- over fill,
- waterlogging,
- over-fill,
- over-filled,
- over fills,
- over filling,
- waterlogs,
- over-fills.
• scrutinize (verb)
- going over with a finetooth comb,
- went over with fine-tooth comb,
- inquiring in to,
- taking measure of,
- gets a load of,
- gets load of,
- perlustrated,
- gotten a load of,
- go over with a fine tooth comb,
- got a load of,
- inquiring into,
- puts under microscope,
- inquires in to,
- over-look,
- goes over with finetooth comb,
- goes over with a fine-tooth comb,
- over look,
- go over with finetooth comb,
- go over with fine tooth comb,
- takes the measure of,
- scrutinated,
- perlustrating,
- get load of,
- inquired in to,
- gotten load of,
- over looks,
- inquires into,
- going over with a fine tooth comb,
- takes measure of,
- inquire in to,
- going over with finetooth comb,
- goes over with fine tooth comb,
- going over with a fine-tooth comb,
- took measure of,
- putting under microscope,
- burns up,
- over looked,
- looks over,
- goes over with a finetooth comb,
- went over with a finetooth comb,
- went over with finetooth comb,
- go over with a finetooth comb,
- over-looking,
- scrutinates,
- took the measure of,
- goes over with a fine tooth comb,
- went over with fine tooth comb,
- went over with a fine-tooth comb,
- scrutinating,
- put under microscope,
- puts under a microscope,
- went over with a fine tooth comb,
- going over with fine-tooth comb,
- gat load of,
- going over with fine tooth comb,
- goes over with fine-tooth comb,
- perlustrates,
- getting a load of,
- putting under a microscope,
- taking the measure of,
- go over with fine-tooth comb,
- burnt up,
- got load of,
- over-looks.
• see (verb)
- catching glimpse of,
- re mark,
- re-marking,
- caught a glimpse of,
- catching sight of,
- am apprised of,
- catches a glimpse of,
- is apprised of,
- art apprised of,
- catching a glimpse of,
- takes notice,
- dis-cern,
- caught glimpse of,
- were apprised of,
- dis cern,
- re marking,
- re marks,
- took notice,
- was apprised of,
- wert apprised of,
- wast apprised of,
- re-marked,
- payed attention to,
- catches glimpse of,
- re marked,
- being apprised of,
- catch glimpse of,
- are apprised of,
- re-marks.
• soak (verb)
- pouring on,
- poured in to,
- pour in to,
- pours into,
- pouring in to,
- pouring into,
- poured on,
- poured into,
- pours on,
- pours in to.
• stab (verb)
- opens up.
• tap (verb)
- un plugs,
- draws forth,
- un-stopper,
- un-plugs,
- un plugging,
- un stoppered,
- un stoppers,
- drew forth,
- un-plug,
- un-stoppers,
- un-stoppering,
- draws off,
- un plug,
- un stopper,
- un-plugged,
- unstoppers,
- un-stoppered,
- un plugged,
- un stoppering,
- un-plugging,
- drew off,
- unstoppering.
• transfix (verb)
- trans fixes,
- skivered,
- pinned down,
- trans pierce,
- trans-fixes,
- trans-fixt,
- trans-fixing,
- transpierces,
- trans fixt,
- trans-pierced,
- trans pierced,
- trans pierces,
- trans piercing,
- trans fixing,
- nailing down,
- trans-fixed,
- trans-pierce,
- trans-pierces,
- trans fix,
- skivering,
- trans fixed,
- trans-fix,
- trans-piercing.
• transfuse (verb)
- trans fuses,
- trans-fused,
- trans fuse,
- trans-fuse,
- trans fused,
- trans-fuses,
- trans fusing,
- trans-fusing.
• trespass (verb)
- dis pleasing,
- sticks nose in,
- crashes the gates,
- crashed gates,
- dis-pleased,
- does wrong by,
- doing wrong by,
- inter loped,
- mis behave,
- mis behaved,
- crashing the gates,
- chiselling in,
- over stepped,
- mis-behaves,
- chisels in,
- doest wrong by,
- over stepping,
- kibitzes,
- mis-behaved,
- crashes gates,
- kibitzed,
- mis behaves,
- noses in,
- dis please,
- dis-pleases,
- crash gates,
- over steps,
- doth wrong by,
- crashing gates,
- mixing in,
- crashed the gates,
- didst wrong by,
- dis-please,
- inter-loping,
- over-stepped,
- nosed in,
- inter lope,
- over-steps,
- chiseling in,
- mixt in,
- dis-pleasing,
- did wrong by,
- sticked nose in,
- doeth wrong by,
- mixes in,
- stuck nose in,
- mis-behaving,
- chiselled in,
- mis-behave,
- inter-lope,
- inter lopes,
- mis behaving,
- dost wrong by,
- over-stepping,
- dis pleases,
- dis pleased,
- sticking nose in,
- chiseled in,
- nosing in.
• understand (verb)
- gat the point,
- got the point,
- get hang of,
- gets the hang of,
- getting hang of,
- ex plains,
- made sense of,
- hast knowledge of,
- ex-plaining,
- hadst knowledge of,
- haddest knowledge of,
- is with it,
- being conscious of,
- catching on,
- under standing,
- took meaning,
- has knowledge of,
- am with it,
- gets the picture,
- was conscious of,
- wert aware,
- gat point,
- got the idea,
- get idea,
- wast aware,
- gotten the picture,
- wert conscious of,
- gat the idea,
- gat the picture,
- gotten the idea,
- gotten picture,
- being aware,
- gotten point,
- gat the hang of,
- gotten hang of,
- getting the idea,
- gets the point,
- having knowledge of,
- gets hang of,
- are aware,
- getting the point,
- gets the idea,
- getting picture,
- had knowledge of,
- gat picture,
- is conscious of,
- gotten the point,
- ex-plain,
- get picture,
- under-stood,
- ex-plains,
- wert with it,
- is aware,
- gat hang of,
- under stands,
- getting point,
- under-stands,
- art aware,
- gat idea,
- am conscious of,
- get point,
- under-standing,
- takes meaning,
- got the hang of,
- got picture,
- ex-plained,
- gets picture,
- taking meaning,
- gotten the hang of,
- wast conscious of,
- were conscious of,
- got point,
- ex plained,
- wast with it,
- getting idea,
- were aware,
- gotten idea,
- was with it,
- being with it,
- am aware,
- makes sense of,
- under-stand,
- getting the hang of,
- are with it,
- catches on,
- are conscious of,
- under stood,
- under stand,
- making sense of,
- got hang of,
- art with it,
- got idea,
- gets point,
- art conscious of,
- ex plaining,
- ex plain,
- gets idea,
- got the picture,
- hath knowledge of,
- getting the picture,
- were with it.
• understand or be understood (verb)
- touch,
- come across,
- affect,
- work out,
- impress,
- put over,
- get over,
- decipher,
- become clear,
- unravel.
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v.n.
• Other relevant words: (v.n.)
- gore.
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Other synonyms:
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•
- broach,
- see through.
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•
- soak in.
• bore
- gouges out,
- gouge out,
- Reamed,
- Reaming,
- gouged out,
- Sank.
• descend
- tobogganing,
- lose balance,
- deplaned,
- plummet,
- prolapsing,
- sloughs off,
- detrained,
- Slipped,
- prolapsed,
- get down,
- cave in,
- Prolapses,
- deplaning,
- cataracted,
- caves in,
- cataracting,
- detrains,
- stumble,
- slough off,
- detraining,
- caving in,
- fall prostrate,
- prolapse,
- got down,
- plop,
- Tobogganed,
- deplane,
- detrain.
• drill hole
- bore.
• enter
- pass into,
- pop in,
- making way,
- fall into,
- bust in,
- blow in,
- popped in,
- worm in,
- went in,
- jump in,
- blowing in,
- make way,
- ingressed,
- rush in,
- breeze in,
- accessed,
- worked in,
- work in,
- accessing,
- moving in,
- crowd in,
- make an entrance,
- burst in,
- snuck,
- going in,
- drive in,
- ingressing,
- move in,
- goes in,
- pile in,
- set foot in.
• ferret out
- smoke out,
- quested,
- sniff out,
- searching out,
- drives out,
- be on to,
- digs up,
- searched out,
- digging up,
- track down,
- questing,
- nose out,
- picking up on,
- dug up,
- driving out,
- hunt down,
- search out,
- smell out,
- pick up on,
- drive out,
- chase down,
- dig out,
- worm out,
- dig up,
- scout out.
• get in
- get inside,
- Embarking,
- gain ingress.
• open
- Slotted,
- come apart,
- fissuring,
- unbolts,
- holed,
- fissured,
- unfurled,
- unlatches,
- unbarring,
- unbar,
- coming apart,
- unlatched,
- unbarred,
- uncorking,
- Unshut,
- unstopped,
- gapped,
- unbolting,
- uncorked,
- throw wide,
- Unclose,
- unfurls,
- Unlatching,
- uncorks,
- unbolted,
- unbolt,
- unstopping,
- Unlatch,
- Unstop,
- unlock,
- Slotting,
- Holing,
- uncork,
- Unclosed,
- unbars.
• Other relevant words:
- shaven,
- catch on,
- scything,
- instilling,
- kibitzing,
- overswarming,
- overswarm,
- Catting,
- faceted,
- be conscious of,
- Spaded,
- Diced,
- eyeballs,
- looked over,
- Rabbeting,
- DAMPS,
- rabbet,
- invade,
- permeate,
- be held,
- eyeball,
- predicate,
- Scythed,
- dig,
- go out on limb,
- opened up,
- guessing,
- fathoms,
- metastasize,
- Breaching,
- stick,
- pronged,
- be with it,
- look see,
- Chined,
- stab,
- work into,
- plumb,
- Spading,
- entrusting,
- see,
- crash the gates,
- flitch,
- waterlog,
- mowing down,
- Hashed,
- unplug,
- search,
- douches,
- put under a microscope,
- get in,
- perked,
- turn over,
- scrutinate,
- get the picture,
- kenning,
- Concaving,
- opening up,
- scoping,
- filter,
- test the waters,
- make sense of,
- winnow,
- cut,
- diffusing,
- drill,
- Scanned,
- Hoeing,
- cut through,
- size up,
- Sawn,
- overfilling,
- kent,
- hoes,
- ripping,
- winnowing,
- figured out,
- plowed,
- interfused,
- soak through,
- passing through,
- worm into,
- do wrong by,
- imbrued,
- Douching,
- pronging,
- passes through,
- get the point,
- transfuse,
- Spearing,
- saddled,
- sink in,
- edge in,
- scoped,
- pour into,
- shovel,
- descend upon,
- have knowledge of,
- Rabbeted,
- descend,
- concaves,
- forked out,
- sound out,
- Sickled,
- sickle,
- pour on,
- plumbing,
- savvied,
- tap,
- stare at,
- Hacked,
- Perking,
- interfusing,
- mow down,
- imbruing,
- kibitz,
- Sawing,
- Shanked,
- filtrate,
- Flitches,
- diffuses,
- scissored,
- laid open,
- Interfuse,
- contemplate,
- imbrues,
- catted,
- rabbets,
- figure out,
- trespass,
- feel around,
- overspreading,
- unstoppered,
- drawing forth,
- facetted,
- candling,
- Quartered,
- Infesting,
- get the hang of,
- make inroads,
- Saddling,
- lay open,
- mowed down,
- Dicing,
- unplugs,
- poring over,
- scythe,
- Inroading,
- burning up,
- sounding out,
- overfilled,
- soak,
- sieving,
- dare say,
- siphoning,
- sounded out,
- candled,
- drawing off,
- puncture,
- diffused,
- Speared,
- dig down,
- pass through,
- be hold,
- quarrying,
- feel out,
- draw forth,
- fall on,
- chisel in,
- fork out,
- douched,
- filter through,
- jump to a conclusion,
- inquire into,
- mixed in,
- mows down,
- laying open,
- skived,
- mix in,
- Skiving,
- lump it,
- muscle in,
- fell on,
- unstopper,
- nose in,
- understand,
- smoking,
- take the measure of,
- scanning,
- scoop out,
- burn up,
- guesstimate,
- cut into,
- check up,
- look over,
- Concaved,
- look-see,
- looking over,
- Quarried,
- open,
- Hashing,
- skive,
- eyeballing,
- Osmose,
- Slivered,
- encumber,
- over-run,
- opine,
- go over with a fine-tooth comb,
- get to the bottom of,
- Oozed,
- take soundings,
- scrutinize,
- charge,
- scissoring,
- siphoned,
- perforate,
- Gouging,
- overspreads,
- pervade,
- hoe,
- infiltrate,
- lance,
- scythes,
- look into,
- forayed,
- was aware,
- loot,
- ferret out,
- enter,
- Slivering,
- swarm over,
- infests,
- sickling,
- stick into,
- happen upon,
- foraying,
- rooting out,
- percolate,
- Peering,
- imbrue,
- Jagging,
- passed through,
- sinking in,
- breached,
- metastasized,
- go out on a limb,
- checked over,
- saturate,
- get a load of,
- sickles,
- overfill,
- be aware,
- transfix,
- massacre,
- searches,
- happened upon,
- grub,
- Hacking,
- savvying,
- chine,
- delve into,
- Damping,
- overfills,
- scissor,
- pervades,
- caught on,
- looked into,
- open up,
- Hoed,
- take a stab at,
- douche,
- Damped,
- Inroaded,
- Kenned,
- probe,
- inquired into,
- shanking,
- Intersected,
- sneak in,
- burned up,
- filtrates,
- Filtrated,
- plundered,
- chines,
- check over,
- guess,
- snip,
- take a shot at,
- unplugging,
- skives,
- sieved,
- punctured,
- take measure of,
- fathom,
- quarter,
- unplugged,
- over-runs,
- tunnel,
- guesstimated,
- stared at,
- think likely,
- get the idea,
- take meaning,
- pore over,
- stick nose in,
- sneaking in,
- sawed,
- cognize,
- put out a feeler,
- encumbered,
- draw off,
- sympathize,
- hewn,
- Faceting,
- get to the bottom,
- feeling out,
- Filtrating,
- go flat,
- perlustrate,
- root out.
• penetrate
- break through.
• perforate
- poke full of holes,
- honeycomb,
- honeycombed,
- shoot full of holes,
- honeycombs,
- honeycombing.
• see
- Re-mark,
- caught sight of,
- catch a glimpse of,
- catches sight of,
- clocked,
- clocking,
- catch sight of,
- looking at,
- paying attention to,
- take notice,
- looks at,
- be apprised of,
- looked at,
- pays attention to,
- taking notice,
- Glimpsed,
- look at,
- paid attention to,
- pay attention to.
• transfix
- Transpierce,
- Skewered,
- pin down,
- pinning down,
- Transpierced,
- Transpiercing,
- Skiver,
- Skewering,
- pins down,
- skivers.
• transfuse
- Freighted,
- Freighting.
How to use «Penetrate» in context?
Penetrate is a word meaning to go far into something. It is used to describe something that goes into a person or something else. It can also describe something that goes into something else. The word can be used either figuratively or literally.
Paraphrases for Penetrate:
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Equivalence
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Verb, base form
enter, infiltrate, permeate.
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Verb, base form
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Independent
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Verb, base form
access, break, capture, conquer, cross, drill, expand, explore, invade, locate, pierce, puncture, reach, sneak, storm, tap, traverse, unravel, crack.
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Verb, base form
Hyponym for Penetrate:
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v.
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contact
infix, enter, come in, introduce, go in, go into, get into, get in, move into, insert.
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motion
progress, advance, go on, march on, pass on, move on.
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contact
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Resources
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