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動詞

interpenetrate (三人称単数 現在形 interpenetrates, 現在分詞 interpenetrating, 過去形および過去分詞形 interpenetrated)

1. To penetrate mutually or reciprocally.
2. To permeate or pervade.
   • 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], Act IV, scene i, page 141:

     It interpenetrates my granite mass, / Through tangled roots and trodden clay doth pass, / Into the utmost leaves and delicatest flowers; [...]

   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, New York, N.Y.: William H. Colyer, […], published May 1843, OCLC 10193956, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 46:

     [O]ur Religion is not yet a horrible restless Doubt, still less a far horribler composed Cant; but a great heaven-high Unquestionability, encompassing, interpenetrating the whole of Life.