Does my mom have a wrong idea of the term INFILTRATE?
1. to filter into or through; permeate.
2. to cause to pass in by filtering.
3. to move into (an organization, country, territory, or the like) surreptitiously and gradually, esp. with hostile intent: The troops infiltrated the enemy lines.
4. to pass a small number of (soldiers, spies, or the like) into a territory or organization clandestinely and with hostile or subversive intent: The intelligence agency infiltrated three spies into the neighboring country.
–verb (used without object) 5. to pass into or through a substance, place, etc., by or as by filtering.
6. Pathology. to penetrate tissue spaces or cells.
–noun 7. something that infiltrates.
8. Pathology. any substance penetrating tissues or cells and forming a morbid accumulation.
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