Dictionary entry
Penetrate
Pronunciation: /ˈpɛnɪtreɪt/
Pronunciation
/ˈpɛnɪtreɪt/
Myanmar Meaning
(v) ထွင်းဖောက်သည်။ ထိုးထွင်းသိသည်၊မြင်သည်။ သဘောပေါက်သည်။ လိင်တံကိုယောနိအတွင်းသို့သွင်းသည်။
Definition
penetrate /'penÇtreÇt/ v ၁။ ~ (into/through) ေဖာက္သည္။ ထိုးေဖာက္သည္။ ခြဲသည္။ စိမ့္ဝင္ထိုးေဖာက္သည္။ ခ်ဥ္းနင္း ဝင္ေရာက္သည္။ The bullet penetrated his lung. ❍ The party has been penetrated by extremists. ❍ A shrill cry penetrated the silence. ❍ Our troops have penetrated deep into enemy territory. ❍ The heavy rain had penetrated right through her coat. ၂။ ထြင္းေဖာက္သည္။ Our eyes could not penetrate the darkness. ❍ The headlamps penetrated the fog. ❍ We soon penetrated his disguise (ie saw who he really was). ၃။ ထိုးထြင္းသိသည္၊ ျမင္သည္။ It was impossible to penetrate the mystery. ❍ He seemed to be able to penetrate my thoughts. ၄။ သေဘာေပါက္သည္။ I explained the problem to him several times but it didn't seem to penetrate. ❍ Nothing we say penetrates his thick skull! ၅။ ( fml ) လိင္တံကို ေယာနိအတြင္းသို႔သြင္းသည္။ ❏ penetrating adj ၁။ စူးရွေသာ။ a penetrating mind/question/thinker ❍ a penetrating look/glance/stare. ၂။ စူးစူးဝါးဝါးေအာ္(သံ)။ a penetrating cry/shriek/yell.
Examples
- A piece of glass had penetrated the skin.
- They had penetrated deep into enemy territory.
- One of them managed to penetrate airport security.
- Few sounds penetrate the thick walls.
- One of the last cultures in the world that television has not penetrated
- Their advice never even penetrated his consciousness.
- What she said didn’t penetrate until just now.