Interpenetrate definition

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interpenetrated interpenetrates interpenetrating
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To penetrate reciprocally.

The streams interpenetrate each other at the rapids.

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To penetrate thoroughly; pervade; permeate.
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To penetrate each other.
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To penetrate between parts, etc.
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To penetrate mutually or reciprocally.
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To become mixed or united by penetration.

Planes that interpenetrate in a painting.

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To penetrate thoroughly; permeate or pervade.
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To penetrate (each other) reciprocally or mutually.
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Origin of interpenetrate

Interpenetrate Sentence Examples

  • You cannot in the actual man cut soul and body asunder; they interpenetrate in every member.

  • These three varieties of the Romana rustica are marked off from one another more distinctly than is the case with, say the Romance dialects of Italy; they do not interpenetrate one another, but where the one ends the other begins.

  • Wherever the interstellar clouds of the two galaxies collide, they do not freely interpenetrate but, rather, suffer inelastic collision.

  • Mystical realities begins to interpenetrate the ordinary realities of our daily lives.

  • Their basins, especially in the west, interpenetrate one another in the most intricate way, the whole bearing unmistakable evidences of having been in recent geological, and partly in historical times the bottom of extensive lakes, whose alluvial deposits now yield heavy crops.

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