infiltrated

3 definitions • 2 examples

past simple and past participle of

to secretly become part of a group in order to get information or to influence the way that group thinks or behaves:

A journalist managed to infiltrate the powerful drug cartel.

to move slowly into a substance, place, system, or organization:

infiltrate (into) At about this time the new ideas about "corporate management" had begun to infiltrate (into) local government.