penetrate
I
verb
absorb, bore, break into, burst in upon, cut through, empierce, enter, erupt, fill, filter in, flow in, force a passage, give entrance to, go through, gore, imbrue, impale, impregnate, infiltrate, inflow, inject, insert, interfuse, lance, leak into, leaven, make a passage, osmose, overspread, pass, penetrare, perforate, permeate, pervade, pervadere, pierce, pour in, prick, probe, puncture, riddle, run through, saturate, seep in, sink in, skewer, slip into, soak through, spear, spike, stab, suffuse, tincture, transpierce, tunnel
II
index
break (fracture), delve, encroach, impress (affect deeply), interpose, invade, lancinate, permeate, pervade, pierce (lance), solve, spread
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006