Difference between Perforate and Penetrate

What is the difference between Perforate and Penetrate?

Perforate as a verb is to pierce; to penetrate. while Penetrate as a verb is manage to enter into.

Perforate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To pierce; to penetrate. To make a line of holes in a thin material to allow separation at the line.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Perforated.

Penetrate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: Manage to enter into.To insert a penis into an opening, such as a vagina.

Example sentence: The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

We hope you now know whether to use Perforate or Penetrate in your sentence.

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