26984 words

infiltrate

4 definitions • 2 examples
1
to secretly become part of a group in order to get information or to influence the way that group thinks or behaves:

Examples:

A journalist managed to infiltrate the powerful drug cartel.
2
to move slowly into a substance, place, system, or organization:

Examples:

infiltrate (into) At about this time the new ideas about "corporate management" had begun to infiltrate (into) local government.
4
(of water) to flow slowly down into the earth from the earth's surface, for example, through cracks in rocks

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