interpenetrated

verb

past tense of interpenetrate
as in suffused
to spread throughout with tie-dyeing, the dye does not interpenetrate the entire fabric

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  1. suffused
  2. penetrated
  3. permeated
  4. pervaded
Verb
  • After setting her wildly popular debut The Tiger's Wife in a Balkans suffused with myth and magic, the author turned in subsequent books to the Old West and a city redolent of New York.
    — Colin Dwyer, NPR, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The threat is still there, suffused into the air like a memory, but for a time the choice between love and survival no longer feels mutually exclusive to Nino and Yasmina.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 22 July 2026
Definition of suffused
Verb
  • The leaf canopy was so dense that at times only a half-light, a sort of dusky murk, penetrated to the forest floor where the hounds ran.
    — Paul Schullery, Outdoor Life, 13 Aug. 2026
  • The children are dismembered and penetrated, flayed alive, disemboweled, and their intestines set alight.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of penetrated
Verb
  • My work is more permeated by philosophical and spiritual questions.
    — Robbie Griffiths, NPR, 9 Aug. 2026
  • At first, the smell permeated the bedrooms, bringing with it sleepless nights.
    — Celina Tebor, CNN Money, 8 Aug. 2026
Definition of permeated
Verb
  • And creature comforts pervaded—from the in-room Chromecast to the plush bed.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
  • Fear over airstrikes on Iran, which pervaded many conversations with locals during the war, has evaporated.
    — Billy Stockwell, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
Definition of pervaded
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