Definition of "penetrates" [penetrates]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of penetrate. (verb)

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• "Your word penetrates the culture, race, time, and language."
• "Every time alien protein penetrates by effraction, the organism suffers and becomes resistant."
• "At one point Malebranche discusses how the look of an impassioned man "penetrates" even people who hardly know him (LO 113), and at another a young maidservant who, on seeing someone bled through the foot, took to bed with a pain in her foot for several days (LO 114)."