Usually means: Enters or passes through something.
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We found 16 dictionaries that define the word penetrates:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. penetrates: Merriam-Webster
  2. penetrates: Collins English Dictionary
  3. penetrates: Vocabulary.com
  4. Penetrates, penetrates: Wordnik
  5. penetrates: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. penetrates: Wiktionary
  7. penetrates: Dictionary.com
  8. penetrates: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Penetrates: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. penetrates: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. penetrates: Legal dictionary
  2. penetrates: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penetrates: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. penetrates: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. penetrates: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. penetrates: Idioms

(Note: See penetrate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (penetrate)

verb:  To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
verb:  (figuratively) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.
verb:  To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.
verb:  To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
verb:  To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.
verb:  (chess) To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
▸ Also see penetrate


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