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- English Word Penetrate Definition To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to touch with feeling; to make sensible; to move deeply; as, to penetrate one's heart with pity.
- English Word Penetrate Definition To pierce into by the mind; to arrive at the inner contents or meaning of, as of a mysterious or difficult subject; to comprehend; to understand.
- English Word Penetrate Definition To pass; to make way; to pierce. Also used figuratively.
- English Word Penetrated Definition of Penetrate
- English Word Penetrating Definition of Penetrate
- English Word Penetrating Definition Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative; as, a penetrating odor.
- English Word Penetrating Definition Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover; as, a penetrating mind.
- English Word Penetratingly Definition In a penetrating manner.
- English Word Penetration Definition The act or process of penetrating, piercing, or entering; also, the act of mentally penetrating into, or comprehending, anything difficult.
- English Word Penetration Definition Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration.
- English Word Penetrative Definition Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun.
- English Word Penetrative Definition Having the power to affect or impress the mind or heart; impressive; as, penetrative shame.
- English Word Penetrative Definition Acute; discerning; sagacious; as, penetrative wisdom.
- English Word Penetrativeness Definition The quality of being penetrative.
- English Word Penfish Definition A squid.
- English Word Penfold Definition See Pinfold.
- English Word Pengolin Definition The pangolin.
- English Word Penguin Definition Any bird of the order Impennes, or Ptilopteri. They are covered with short, thick feathers, almost scalelike on the wings, which are without true quills. They are unable to fly, but use their wings to aid in diving, in which they are very expert. See King penguin, under Jackass.
- English Word Penguin Definition The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges.
- English Word Penguinery Definition A breeding place, or rookery, of penguins.
- English Word Penholder Definition A handle for a pen.
- English Word Penhouse Definition A penthouse.
- English Word Penible Definition Painstaking; assidous.
- English Word Penicil Definition A tent or pledget for wounds or ulcers.
- English Word Penicillate Definition Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of fine hairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as the stigmas of some grasses.
- English Word Penicilliform Definition Penicillate.
- English Word Peninsula Definition A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.
- English Word Peninsular Definition Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.
- English Word Peninsulate Definition To form into a peninsula.
- English Word Peninsulated Definition of Peninsulate