INFILTRATE


Meaning of INFILTRATE in English

(~s, infiltrating, ~d)

1.

If people ~ a place or organization, or ~ into it, they enter it secretly in order to spy on it or influence it.

Activists had ~d the student movement...

A reporter tried to ~ into the prison.

VERB: V n, V into/from n

infiltration (infiltrations)

...an inquiry into alleged infiltration by the far left group...

N-VAR

2.

To ~ people into a place or organization means to get them into it secretly in order to spy on it or influence it.

Some countries have ~d their agents into the Republic.

VERB: V n into n

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