interpenetrate

English

Etymology

inter- + penetrate

Verb

interpenetrate (third-person singular simple present interpenetrates, present participle interpenetrating, simple past and past participle interpenetrated)

  1. To penetrate mutually or reciprocally.
  2. To permeate or pervade.
    • Shelley
      It interpenetrates my granite mass.
    • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 2, ch. 6, Monk Samson
      […] our Religion is not yet a horrible restless Doubt, still less a far horribler composed Cant; but a great heaven-high Unquestionability, encompassing, interpenetrating the whole of Life.

Italian

Verb

interpenetrate

  1. second-person plural present indicative of interpenetrare
  2. second-person plural imperative of interpenetrare

Participle

interpenetrate

  1. feminine singular of the past participle of interpenetrare
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