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adj. Able or seeming to penetrate: The penetrating odor of garlic soon filled the entire apartment.

adj. Keenly perceptive or understanding; acute: The lecture provided penetrating insight into foreign affairs.

adj. able to pierce or penetrate

adj. demonstrating acute or keen understanding

v. Present participle of penetrate.

adj. Having the power of entering, piercing, or pervading; sharp; subtile; penetrative.

adj. Acute; discerning; sagacious; quick to discover.

Having the power of passing into or through (something); sharp; subtile: as, a penetrating odor.

Acute; discerning; quick to discover or recognize: as, a penetrating mind.

adj. having or demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions

adj. tending to penetrate; having the power of entering or piercing

""We would train Navy doctors and nurses and corpsmen with experience in gunshot wounds before they went to war, because most Navy personnel have no experience in what we call penetrating trauma," he said."

perceptive    sharp   

sharp    subtile    penetrative    acute    discerning    sagacious   

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