infiltration

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Affecting and influencing
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affect
applicability
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bear on something
carry
colour
ear
inspiration
instrumental
instrumentality
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pen
rail
spill
spill over
sportswashing
start (something) off
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infiltrate | American Dictionary

infiltrate
verb
us/ɪnˈfɪlˌtreɪt, ˈɪn·fɪl-/

infiltrateverb (JOIN SECRETLY)

[ I/T ]
to become a member of a group or organization to secretly gather information about its activities

infiltrateverb (ENTER GROUND)

[ I ] earth science
(of water) to flow slowly down into the earth from the earth's surface, for example, through cracks in rocks

infiltration

noun[ U ] earth scienceus/ˌɪn·fɪlˈtreɪ·ʃən/

Examples of infiltrate

infiltrate
The castle is infiltrated by foreigners from distant lands.
The image shows moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma, as well as pools of acellular mucin, infiltrating muscularis propria.
In fact this text comes close to suggesting that the world of consultants and development experts has been infiltrated by evil-doers.
Freeze-substitution followed by an aqueous wash and subsequent dehydration produced blocks that were easily infiltrated and sectioned.
Fish were postfixed in 2% osmium tetroxide, dehydrated in an ethanol series, and infiltrated with araldite resin.
The patient was a 76-year-old woman with two foci of infiltrating lobular carcinoma (0.5 and 0.8 cm) in the same quadrant.
Ultrasound can estimate the pathologic size of infiltrating ductal carcinoma.
In this way, the driving field infiltrates into the current sheet owing to particle kinetic effects, and triggers magnetic reconnection when it reaches the center.
The amounts of radiant flux reaching the soil surface and evaporation were then reduced and rainwater infiltrating into the soil profile was increased.
Very little ear th infiltrated among these sherds.
The groins were infiltrated with bupivacain 0.25% as additional local anesthesia.
Finally, it might be possible to identify an antigen that is not specifically found on endometriosis tissue, but rather on infiltrating immune cells.
The rejected tumours were found to be infiltrated by macrophages and neutrophils.
A critical view has therefore to be taken of welfare - weeding out elements that had infiltrated the concept, like parsimony and coercion.
Thus, strategies that block the actions of these normal resident and/or infiltrating cells are beginning to be exploited in the clinic.
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