infiltrate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
cause (a liquid) to enter by penetrating the interstices
Types & categories
- filter hypernym
Related & opposite
- percolation derivation
Sense 2 verb
enter a group or organization in order to spy on the members
The student organization was infiltrated by a traitor
Types & categories
- join hypernym
Related & opposite
- infiltration derivation
- infiltrator derivation
Sense 3 verb
pass into or through by filtering or permeating
the substance infiltrated the material
Types & categories
- filter hypernym
Related & opposite
- percolation derivation
Sense 4 verb
pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict
Types & categories
- pass hypernym
Related & opposite
- infiltration derivation
- infiltrator derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | percolation |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | filter |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infiltration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | infiltrator |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | join |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | percolation |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | filter |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | infiltration |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | infiltrator |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | pass |