interpenetrate
verb (used with object)
to penetrate thoroughly; permeate.
interpenetration
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a word derived from
interpenetrate.
Example Sentences
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The blocks’ zone of interpenetration lies beneath the Cascade Range, where intense pressures produce volcanic peaks like St. Helens, Baker and Rainier.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 1, 2022
But this interpenetration is going on also in younger troupes, companies where you’d expect the founding choreographer to be jealous of his stage time.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019
These shades of feeling, and their interpenetration, are conveyed with extraordinary delicacy and care.
From New York Times ● Aug. 15, 2011
A more elaborate interpenetration of the historical and the personal comes in Act II.
From New York Times ● Jan. 30, 2011
For there was not a country on the globe which she or her ally had not subjected to the process of interpenetration, nor was there one which had remained wholly irresponsive.
From England and Germany by William Morris Hughes
