present participle of penetrate

(ice hockey) An enclosed bench where a player must remain for timed period (a penalty) that is assessed after an infraction. / (soccer) The penalty area.

(geomorphology) A low-relief plain representing the final stage of fluvial erosion during times of extended tectonic stability.

(Britain, euphemistic, idiomatic) To use the toilet.

Originally a small utility knife for cutting the points of quill feathers or reeds into nibs to provide or repair writing implements in times before pens with artificial nibs, generally metal, became commercially available in the 19th century. Early versions of penknives commonly were small sheath knives.

A voluntary self-imposed punishment for a sinful act or wrongdoing. It may be intended to serve as reparation for the act. / A sacrament in some Christian churches. / Any instrument of self-punishment.

To impose penance; to punish.

Hanging from, or as if from, a support. / indecisive or hesitant / (biology) having branches etc. that bend downwards; drooping or weeping

Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Also figuratively.

(archaic) money due to a castle guard at the end of his service