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penetrable

/pen-i-truh-buhl/US // ˈpɛn ɪ trə bəl //

可穿透的,可渗透的,可穿透性,可穿透

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : capable of being penetrated.

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Examples

  • Here the fragments lay together, a mass of beams penetrable by the waves, but still breaking their force.

  • This was the first time he had smarted in his penetrable part—the skin—and it made him very spiteful.

  • The niche set apart for them to inhabit in our secret hearts is not penetrable by the lights and noises of common day.

  • The night filled with so much driving snow had become a kind of white gloom, less penetrable than the darkness.

  • The skin is, in some parts, so thick and hard as scarcely to be penetrable by the sharpest sabre, or even by a musket-ball.