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Meanings of penetrable in English

Portuguese
penetrável

Admitting of penetration or passage into or through.

        penetrável

        Penetrable.

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                Examples for "impenetrable"
                Examples for "impenetrable"
                1
                And Time had made the disguise impenetrable in the thirty added years.
                The Moon Rock
                2
                Under the close-woven arches of the giant fern-trees the night was impenetrable.
                Darkness and Dawn
                3
                The mists lay light but impenetrable on the surface of the lake.
                Flamsted quarries
                4
                At eleven miles it became so dense that it was nearly impenetrable.
                Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
                5
                She was perfectly impenetrable to the bantering tone in which he spoke.
                The Haunted Hotel: A Mystery of Modern Venice
                Usage of penetrable in English
                1
                The one penetrable point in his ironclad nature had not been reached yet.
                Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time
                2
                Building higher meant arrival in a fluid world where all aggregates were penetrable.
                Foes
                3
                At this point the skin is finer and more easily penetrable than elsewhere.
                More Hunting Wasps
                4
                Spirits are the only solids, matter being endlessly penetrable and transmutable.
                The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
                5
                The disguise he threw over his heart was penetrable to the girl's eye.
                Foul Play
                6
                The riverside bushes were certainly very thick; but the undergrowth behind was evidently penetrable.
                Heart Of Darkness
                7
                The thoughtless objection about the only penetrable points is, I hope, swept aside forever.
                More Hunting Wasps
                8
                Every man's secret is penetrable, if his neighbor be sharp-sighted.
                The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 / A Mag...
                9
                How few penetrable regions can we now find where the rail-car is a novelty!
                The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 / A Mag...
                10
                This land so briefly shadowed forth was penetrable only in summer: that he well knew.
                The Rules of the Game
                11
                It makes our defenses seem weak and easily penetrable.
                Destroy Me
                12
                The darkness around her resolved itself, dimmed into grey shades more penetrable to her eyes.
                Empire in black and gold
                13
                Stray fires and bursts of current, but penetrable.
                The Hyperion Cantos
                14
                Flesh should not be that vulnerable, that penetrable.
                Phoenix noir
                15
                Now, the clay is easily penetrable, and the original hole probably pierced a bed of china clay.
                The Lair of the White Worm
                16
                The penetrable gloom there, and the growing apprehension concerning the countess and Nevil, tore her to pieces.
                Beauchamp's Career — Volume 6
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                Translations for penetrable
                Portuguese
                penetrável
                Penetrable through the time