Thesaurus / penetrated
other words for penetrated
- crack
- drill
- enter
- go through
- infiltrate
- invade
- pass through
- permeate
- pervade
- puncture
- seep
- access
- bayonet
- bore
- charge
- come
- diffuse
- drive
- encroach
- force
- gore
- impale
- insert
- insinuate
- introduce
- jab
- knife
- percolate
- perforate
- prick
- probe
- ream
- saturate
- spear
- stab
- suffuse
- thrust
- trespass
- barge in
- blow in
- break in
- breeze in
- bust in
- eat through
- filter in
- get in
- ingress
- make a hole
- make an entrance
- pop in
- run into
- sink into
- stick into
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Shells or heavy armour-piercing shot had penetrated almost everything.
THE HEROIC RECORD OF THE BRITISH NAVYARCHIBALD HURD
This matter has so penetrated the skin, the muscles, and the bones, that it forms with them but one and the same mass.
HISTORY OF EMBALMINGJ. N. GANNAL
No English sovereign ever had (or has since that time) penetrated into the House of Commons.
Abdallah penetrated nine hundred miles to Tripoli, but returned.
HISTORY OF THE INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT OF EUROPE, VOLUME I (OF 2)JOHN WILLIAM DRAPER
At the expiration of a couple of hours we had penetrated to the very heart of the wild wood.
THE MEMOIRS OF A WHITE ELEPHANTJUDITH GAUTIER
As they penetrated the savage forests, in the next few weeks, they learned to expect any adornment, or none.
THE POCAHONTAS-JOHN SMITH STORYPOCAHONTAS WIGHT EDMUNDS
But at the end of it, his sleep was penetrated by a definite sound.
THE LOST PRINCEFRANCES HODGSON BURNETT
Some of the utterances upon sexual morality are penetrated with the rancor of rebellion.
RENAISSANCE IN ITALY: ITALIAN LITERATUREJOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS
Such were the impressions which, day by day, penetrated the very soul of our poor "Miss Mary."
MONSIEUR DE CAMORS, COMPLETEOCTAVE FEUILLET
The bullet, entering the forehead, over the right eye, had penetrated the skull.
THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHERJ.W. VON GOETHE