verb
1. cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices (Freq. 2)
• Derivationally related forms: ↑infiltration
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s something
2. enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members (Freq. 1)
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The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor
• Syn: ↑penetrate
• Derivationally related forms: ↑infiltration, ↑infiltrator
• Hypernyms: ↑join, ↑fall in, ↑get together
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
3. pass into or through by filtering or permeating
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the substance infiltrated the material
• Derivationally related forms: ↑infiltration
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
4. pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict
• Syn: ↑pass through
• Derivationally related forms: ↑infiltration, ↑infiltrator
• Hypernyms: ↑pass, ↑go through, ↑go across
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s something
Useful english dictionary. 2012.