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PENETRATE

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penetrate verb A. tranzitiv

1. a pătrunde, a străpunge, a găuri, a străbate;

he fell on a knife which penetrated the flesh a căzut într-un cuţit care i-a pătruns în carne.

2. a înţelege, a pătrunde;

to penetrate a secret a pătrunde/ a înţelege o taină;

to penetrate smb.’s mind a pătrunde gândurile cuiva.

3. a insufla, a inculca, a da (cuiva);

to penetrate smb. with a feeling a face e cineva să se pătrundă de un sentiment, a insufla un sentiment cuiva;

penetrated with the ideas of a past age pătruns / plin de ideile unei epoci trecute.

penetrate verb B. intranzitiv

1. a pătrunde, a intra;

the bayonet penetrated to the lung baioneta a pătruns până la plămân;

we penetrated a good way into the forest ne-am afundat până departe în pădure.

2. (through) a trece (prin); a străbate, a traversa.

3. (şi mil.) a se infiltra;

the water is penetrating everywhere apa se infiltrează peste tot;

to penetrate through the enemy’s lines a face o breşă / a se infiltra în liniile inamice.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I was encompassed by a cloud which no beneficial influence could penetrate.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Mrs Smith gave her a penetrating glance, and then, smiling, said—I have been a little premature, I perceive; I beg your pardon.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

She may not have surmised the whole, but her quickness must have penetrated a part.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Near-infrared light penetrates deeply but doesn't have enough energy to generate the radicals.

(Making higher energy light to fight cancer, National Science Foundation)

The bullet had been fired at him from the front, and had remained in his body, after penetrating the heart.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I believe, he said this with some hesitation, I penetrate your motive, and it makes the thing more difficult.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The captain had thrust his head and shoulders out of the pilot-house, and was staring intently into the fog as though by sheer force of will he could penetrate it.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Colistimethate sodium contains the pentasodium salt of the penta(methanesulfonic acid) derivative of colistin A as the major component and a small proportion of the petasodium salt of the pentamethanesulfonate derivative of colistin B. Colistins are cyclic polypeptides produced from Bacillus colistinus or B. polymyxa and function as a surfactant which penetrates into and disrupts the bacterial cell membrane, thereby resulting in bactericidal effect.

(Colistimethate Sodium, NCI Thesaurus)

Once the liquid dries and returns to its initial state of polymer, it forms a biofilm capable of preventing fungi and bacteria from forming on the egg’s surface or penetrating the shell’s pores.

(Protective bio-shell could extend egg shelf life, SciDev.Net)

I wondered to see them receive with calm that look which seemed to me so penetrating: I expected their eyes to fall, their colour to rise under it; yet I was glad when I found they were in no sense moved.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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