interpenetrate
verb
in·ter·pen·e·trate
ˌin-tər-ˈpe-nə-ˌtrāt 
interpenetrated; interpenetrating; interpenetrates
: to penetrate mutually
: to penetrate between, within, or throughout : permeate
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Examples of interpenetrate in a Sentence
with tie-dyeing, the dye does not interpenetrate the entire fabric
Recent Examples on the Web
Water interpenetrates it, a gleaming, mercurial counter-spiral spooling into its open rockwork.
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Jennifer L. Roberts, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023
Negative space and positive materiality interpenetrate in an extraordinary formal condensation of Cubist technique.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
With the degree that the two countries interpenetrate each other’s elite and intelligence establishments, think the Russian military couldn’t get a kill shot on President Volodymyr Zelensky?
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
Traditionalist Catholic ideas and values now interpenetrate conservative American political thought and nearly every political institution of consequence.
—Peter Hammond Schwartz, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
Spaces and forms interpenetrated. Sculptural concrete projections that housed the chambers and the mayor’s office protruded from a modular facade of offices.
—Joseph Giovannini, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
In very recent work, Nikolay Prokof'ev and Boris Svistunov have proposed extremely clean examples involving two interpenetrating superfluids.
—Frank Wilczek, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
Two of the figures embrace, and their bodies interpenetrate to form a new anthropomorphic — no, feminamorphic — tree.
—Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 7 July 2018
Nabokov’s stories and novels and autobiographical essays are the true reverse dreams, where futures pass and interpenetrate, and where the past, like John Dunne’s transparent fishing lures, shines.
—Nicholson Baker, New Republic, 21 Feb. 2018
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Jennifer L. Roberts, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023
Negative space and positive materiality interpenetrate in an extraordinary formal condensation of Cubist technique.
—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022
With the degree that the two countries interpenetrate each other’s elite and intelligence establishments, think the Russian military couldn’t get a kill shot on President Volodymyr Zelensky?
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022
Traditionalist Catholic ideas and values now interpenetrate conservative American political thought and nearly every political institution of consequence.
—Peter Hammond Schwartz, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
Spaces and forms interpenetrated. Sculptural concrete projections that housed the chambers and the mayor’s office protruded from a modular facade of offices.
—Joseph Giovannini, New York Times, 4 Apr. 2020
In very recent work, Nikolay Prokof'ev and Boris Svistunov have proposed extremely clean examples involving two interpenetrating superfluids.
—Frank Wilczek, Scientific American, 16 Oct. 2019
Two of the figures embrace, and their bodies interpenetrate to form a new anthropomorphic — no, feminamorphic — tree.
—Sharon Mizota, latimes.com, 7 July 2018
Nabokov’s stories and novels and autobiographical essays are the true reverse dreams, where futures pass and interpenetrate, and where the past, like John Dunne’s transparent fishing lures, shines.
—Nicholson Baker, New Republic, 21 Feb. 2018
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First Known Use
circa 1810, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
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The first known use of interpenetrate was
circa 1810
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“Interpenetrate.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interpenetrate. Accessed 2 Dec. 2023.
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interpenetrate
verb
in·ter·pen·e·trate
ˌint-ər-ˈpen-ə-ˌtrāt
1
: to penetrate between, within, or throughout
2
: to penetrate mutually
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