interpenetrate
verb
in·ter·pen·e·trate ˌin-tər-ˈpe-nə-ˌtrāt 
interpenetrated; interpenetrating; interpenetrates
intransitive verb
: to penetrate mutually
transitive verb
: to penetrate between, within, or throughout : permeate
interpenetration
ˌin-tər-ˌpe-nə-ˈtrā-shən
noun 
Synonyms
- percolate (into)
- permeate
- pervade
- riddle
- suffuse
- transfuse
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Example Sentences
with tie-dyeing, the dye does not interpenetrate the entire fabric
Recent Examples on the Web 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 But things improve as the two stories, or at least the two pairs of actors, eventually start to interpenetrate. Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017 See More
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 But things improve as the two stories, or at least the two pairs of actors, eventually start to interpenetrate. Jesse Green, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2017 See More Word History
First Known Use
circa 1810, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense
interpenetrating
verb
as in suffusing
to spread throughout with tie-dyeing, the dye does not interpenetrate the entire fabric Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- suffusing
- penetrating
- permeating
- pervading
- flooding
- riddling
- transfusing
- impregnating
- saturating
- infusing
- percolating (into)
- imbuing
- diffusing (through)
- glutting
- drenching
- soaking
- filling (up)
- passing (into)
- steeping