English > perforate: 3 senses > verb 2, contact| Meaning | Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something; Somebody ----s PP |
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| Synonym | penetrate |
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| Narrower | break | pierce or penetrate |
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| cut | penetrate injuriously |
| foray | briefly enter enemy territory |
| honeycomb | penetrate thoroughly and into every part |
| immerse, plunge | thrust or throw into |
| ingrain, grain | Thoroughly work in |
| interpenetrate, permeate | penetrate mutually or be interlocked |
| ooze through | Run slowly and gradually |
| percolate, sink in, permeate, filter | Pass through |
| permeate, pervade, penetrate, interpenetrate, diffuse, imbue, riddle | Spread or diffuse through |
| pierce | make a hole into |
| pierce, thrust | penetrate or cut through with a sharp instrument |
| pierce | cut or make a way through |
| poke into | Enter briefly |
| probe, dig into, poke into | Examine physically with or as if with a probe |
| sneak in, creep in | Enter surreptitiously |
| storm, force | Take by force |
| strike | pierce with force |
| tunnel | Force a way / way through |
| Broader | enter, come in, get into, get in, go into, go in, move into | To come or go into |
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| Spanish | adentrarse, penetrar, profundizar |
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| Catalan | aprofundir, penetrar, profunditzar |
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| Nouns | perforation | a hole made in something |
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