infiltrate
IPA: ɪnfˈɪɫtreɪt
noun
- (pathology) Any undesirable substance or group of cells that has made its way into part of the body.
verb
- (transitive, intransitive) To surreptitiously penetrate, enter or gain access to.
- (transitive) To cause to penetrate in this way.
- (transitive, intransitive, of a liquid) To pass through something by filtration.
- (transitive) To cause (a liquid) to pass through something by filtration.
- (transitive, intransitive, medicine) To invade or penetrate a tissue or organ.
- (transitive, military) To send (soldiers, spies, etc.) through gaps in the enemy line.
- (intransitive, of an intravenous needle) To move from a vein, remaining in the body.
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Examples of "infiltrate" in Sentences
- Don't want to reveal my plan but is the word infiltrate appropriate?
- The use of the word infiltrate to refer to a child reeks of small minded bigotry.
- "The use of the word infiltrate to refer to a child reeks of small minded bigotry."
- This first episode picks up where "Half-Life 2" ended: the towering alien fortress you and female friend Alyx managed to infiltrate is about to blow in a very big way.
- CBS also reported that "Marc Ambinder has a video of an AIP leader explaining that party members" Must 'infiltrate'-his words-the other two parties and push for the cause of Alaskan independence. "
- Co-ed groups of military-age Israelis pretending to be students of a non-existent Tel Aviv "arts school" had earlier that year been caught attempting to visit - "infiltrate" - sensitive U.S. security sites, as authoritatively reported at the time by a number of corporate media outlets.
- Cossiga, former Italian President, Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, and one of the founders of the Operation GLADIO covert intelligence unit, encouraged Silvio Berlusconi and current Minister of the Interior Robert Maroni to "do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior," namely infiltrate what so far have been relatively peaceful demonstrations, radicalize them, start riots, then engender public support for a heavy-handed police response.
- Cossiga, former Italian President, Prime Minister, Minister of the Interior, and one of the founders of the Operation GLADIO covert intelligence unit, encouraged Silvio Berlusconi and current Minister of the Interior Robert Maroni to "do what I did when I was Minister of the Interior," namely infiltrate what so far have been relatively peaceful demonstrations, radicalize them, start riots, then engender public support for a heavy-handed police response. translated reads as follows.
- (E.g., the Ho Chi Minh Trail was originally created as a supply line and in order that propagandists, assassins and terrorists could infiltrate from the North into the South, coercing local, indigenous South Vietnamese populations into ideological compliance.) + More generally, Uncle Ho was not the simple nationalist as protrayed by the Western Left, he was a thoroughgoing ideologue and practitioner of Leninist/Stalinist styled totalitarian programs, from instilling a cult of personality to eliminating contenders for nationalist leadership via assassinations and intra-party purges.
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