Definition of "interpenetrate"

interpenetrate

verb
third-person singular simple present interpenetrates, present participle interpenetrating, simple past and past participle interpenetrated
1. To penetrate mutually or reciprocally.
2. To permeate or pervade.
  Quotations
  It interpenetrates my granite mass, / Through tangled roots and trodden clay doth pass, / Into the utmost leaves and delicatest flowers; [...]
  1818–1819 (date written), Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Prometheus Unbound”, in Prometheus Unbound […], London: C[harles] and J[ames] Ollier […], published 1820, Act IV, scene i, page 141
  [O]ur Religion is not yet a horrible restless Doubt, still less a far horribler composed Cant; but a great heaven-high Unquestionability, encompassing, interpenetrating the whole of Life.
  1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Monk Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, book II (The Ancient Monk), page 46