penetrating
Definitions
Verb
- Pass into or through, often by overcoming resistance
- Come to understand
- Become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
- Enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
- Make one's way deeper into or through
- Insert the penis into the vagina or anus of
- Spread or diffuse through
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Sounds Like
Words that sound like the term "penetrating".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prohibiting | 4 | 4 |
| 2 | speculating | 4 | 4 |
| 3 | appropriating | 5 | 2 |
| 4 | patronizing | 4 | 2 |
| 5 | publicizing | 4 | 2 |
| 6 | paraphrasing | 4 | 1 |
| 7 | personifying | 5 | 1 |
| 8 | printmaking | 3 | 1 |
| 9 | palpitating | 4 | 0 |
| 10 | panhandling | 3 | 0 |
| 11 | partitioning | 4 | 0 |
| 12 | permutating | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | perpetrating | 4 | 0 |
| 14 | persecuting | 4 | 0 |
| 15 | pluralizing | 4 | 0 |
| 16 | populating | 4 | 0 |
| 17 | predicating | 4 | 0 |
| 18 | prejudicing | 4 | 0 |
| 19 | prescribing | 3 | 0 |
| 20 | privatizing | 4 | 0 |
| 21 | procreating | 4 | 0 |
| 22 | profiteering | 4 | 0 |
| 23 | propagating | 4 | 0 |
| 24 | prospecting | 3 | 0 |
| 25 | prototyping | 4 | 0 |
| 26 | provisioning | 4 | 0 |
| 27 | punctuating | 4 | 0 |
Spelled Like
Words that are spelled similarly to the term "penetrating".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | operating | 4 | 87 |
| 2 | penetration | 4 | 15 |
| 3 | peering | 2 | 9 |
| 4 | generating | 4 | 7 |
| 5 | penetrate | 3 | 7 |
| 6 | retreating | 3 | 5 |
| 7 | perpetuating | 5 | 4 |
| 8 | veneration | 4 | 3 |
| 9 | petting | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | regenerating | 5 | 1 |
| 11 | netting | 2 | 1 |
| 12 | perpetrating | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | venerating | 4 | 0 |
| 14 | entreating | 3 | 0 |
| 15 | exonerating | 5 | 0 |
| 16 | nitrating | 3 | 0 |
| 17 | degenerating | 5 | 0 |
| 18 | retracting | 3 | 0 |
| 19 | permeating | 4 | 0 |
| 20 | penetrator | 4 | 0 |
Words That Follow
Words that often follow the term "penetrating" in a sentence.
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Words That Precede
Words that often precede the term "penetrating" in a sentence.
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Statistically Associated
Words that are statistically associated with "penetrating" in the same piece of text.
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Consonant Match
Words that contain the same consonants as the term "penetrating".
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Results:
Term
Definitions: 7
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 27
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 0
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
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