penetrate

verb6

1. •
   To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to pierce.

   • Light penetrates darkness.
2. •
   To infiltrate an enemy to gather intelligence.
3. •
   To insert the penis into an orifice, such as a vagina, mouth, or anus.

   • a male elephant comes up and penetrates the female
4. •
   To move a piece past the defending pieces of one's opponent.
5. •
   (figurative) To achieve understanding of, despite some obstacle; to comprehend; to understand.

   • I could not penetrate Burke's opaque rhetoric.
6. •
   To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to move deeply.

   • The translator of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style. — 1867