penetrate
/ˈpɛnɪtɹeɪt/verb
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.
Example sentences
- “Light penetrates darkness.”
- “I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.”
Featured as word of the day on January 19, 2026.
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