Synonyms of interpenetrate

interpenetrate

verb

ˌin-tər-ˈpe-nə-ˌtrāt 

as in to penetrate

to spread throughout

with tie-dyeing, the dye does not interpenetrate the entire fabric

Synonyms & Similar Words

• penetrate
• suffuse
• permeate
• pervade
• flood
• pass (into)
• percolate (into)
• transfuse
• fill (up)
• saturate
• diffuse (through)
• impregnate
• riddle
• infuse
• imbue
• soak
• steep
• drench
• glut

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of interpenetrate

Those canyons provide thousands of patches of natural habitat that interpenetrate the edges of greater Los Angeles. — Literary Hub, 8 Jan. 2026

The works that were being presented onstage, both blackface and ballet, were addressing themes that interpenetrated everyday life. — Chava Pearl Lansky, JSTOR Daily, 30 July 2025

The strong medicine of Zen and other mystical traditions can flip us into a state of experiencing our whole Self—a boundless, selfless Self that interpenetrates with all that is. — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025

Building and action interpenetrate in the courtyards, arcades, and stairways. — Thomas Meaney, The New Yorker, 25 Nov. 2024

Water interpenetrates it, a gleaming, mercurial counter-spiral spooling into its open rockwork. — Jennifer L. Roberts, The Atlantic, 9 Aug. 2023

Negative space and positive materiality interpenetrate in an extraordinary formal condensation of Cubist technique. — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2022

With the degree that the two countries interpenetrate each other’s elite and intelligence establishments, think the Russian military couldn’t get a kill shot on President Volodymyr Zelensky? — Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 12 Aug. 2022

Traditionalist Catholic ideas and values now interpenetrate conservative American political thought and nearly every political institution of consequence. — Peter Hammond Schwartz, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021