MEANING
To enter or permeate one another rather than remain wholly separate.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- interpenetrating layers
- memories interpenetrate
On the page
The two layers interpenetrated along the damaged boundary.
Present and remembered voices interpenetrated in the account.
Related words
Word forms
- Base
- interpenetrate
- Past tense
- interpenetrated
- Past participle
- interpenetrated
- Present participle
- interpenetrating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- interpenetrate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are interpenetrating
- Present perfect
- have/has interpenetrated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been interpenetrating
- Past
- interpenetrated
- Past continuous
- was/were interpenetrating
- Past perfect
- had interpenetrated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been interpenetrating
- Future
- will interpenetrate
- Future continuous
- will be interpenetrating
- Future perfect
- will have interpenetrated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been interpenetrating
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: interpenetrate; interpenetrates; interpenetrated; interpenetrated; interpenetrating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: interpenetrates.
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