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penetrate: come to understand; pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance; "The bullet penetrated her chest"; insert the penis into the vagina or anus of; "Did the molester penetrate the child?"; make one's way deeper into or through; "The hikers did not manage to penetrate the dense forest"

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see through collapse: remain with until completion; "I must see the job through"; perceive the true nature of; "We could see through her apparent calm"; support financially through a period of time; "The scholarship saw me through college"; "This money will see me through next month"

infest collapse: invade in great numbers; "the roaches infested our kitchen"; live on or in a host, as of parasites

dissect collapse: cut open or cut apart; "dissect the bodies for analysis"

come alive collapse

dawn on collapse

ingress collapse: (astronomy) the disappearance of a celestial body prior to an eclipse

soak in collapse

instill collapse: enter drop by drop; "instill medication into my eye"; impart gradually; "Her presence instilled faith into the children"; "transfuse love of music into the students"

perforate collapse

imbrue collapse: permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood"

pervade collapse

sink in collapse

ferret out collapse: search and discover through persistent investigation; "She ferreted out the truth"

descry collapse: catch sight of

interfuse collapse

suffuse collapse: cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across; "The sky was suffused with a warm pink color"; to become overspread as with a fluid, a colour, a gleam of light; "His whole frame suffused with a cold dew"

pass through collapse: cause to move through; "Pass a chemical through a solution"

swarm with collapse

creep with collapse

crawl with collapse

make an impression collapse

refrigerate collapse: cool or chill in or as if in a refrigerator; "refrigerate this medicine"; preserve by chilling; "many foods must be refrigerated or else they will spoil"

catch on collapse: become popular; "This fashion caught on in Paris"; understand, usually after some initial difficulty; "She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on"

permeate collapse: 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"

get across collapse: communicate successfully; "I couldn't get across the message"; "He put over the idea very well"

see the light collapse

discern collapse

skewer collapse: a long pin for holding meat in position while it is being roasted; drive a skewer through; "skewer the meat for the BBQ"

teem collapse: be teeming, be abuzz; "The garden was swarming with bees"; "The plaza is teeming with undercover policemen"; "her mind pullulated with worries"

transfix collapse: pierce with a sharp stake or point; "impale a shrimp on a skewer"

frostbite collapse: destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene

impale collapse: kill by piercing with a spear or sharp pole; "the enemies were impaled and left to die"

benumb collapse

impregnate collapse: make pregnant; "He impregnated his wife again"; fertilize and cause to grow; "the egg was impregnated"; infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"; fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"

ream collapse: a quantity of paper; 480 or 500 sheets; one ream equals 20 quires; a large quantity of written matter; "he wrote reams and reams"; enlarge with a reamer; "ream a hole"; remove by making a hole or by boring; "the dentist reamed out the debris in the course of the root canal treatment"; squeeze the juice out (of a fruit) with a reamer; "ream oranges"

leaven collapse: an influence that works subtly to lighten or modify something; "his sermons benefited from a leavening of humor"; a substance used to produce fermentation in dough or a liquid

obsess collapse: be preoccupied with something; "She is obsessing over her weight"

transfuse collapse: give a transfusion (e.g., of blood) to; pour out of one vessel into another

perceive collapse: become conscious of; "She finally perceived the futility of her protest"; to become aware of through the senses; "I could perceive the ship coming over the horizon"

come through collapse

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