infiltrationnoun [ U ]
uk/ˌɪn.fɪlˈtreɪ.ʃən//ˌɪn.fɪlˈtreɪ.ʃən/the process of secretly becoming part of a group in order to get information or to influence the way that a group thinks or behaves:
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Affecting and influencing
- across-the-board
- act
- affect
- applicability
- be/fall under sb's influence/spell idiom
- bear on sth
- cross
- force
- inspiration
- instrumental
- jerk
- lead 1
- leave your/its mark on sb/sth idiom
- major league
- reverberate
- thing
- turn sb's head idiom
- unlock
- warp
- work against/for sb
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the process of moving slowly into a substance, place, system, or organization:
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Slow and moving slowly
- at a snail's pace idiom
- by and by idiom
- by degrees idiom
- claw your way (somewhere) idiom
- clunky
- drift
- float
- hang around
- in ones and twos idiom
- inch by inch idiom
- infiltrate
- labour
- lag
- mill
- sluggish
- snail
- steadily
- steady
- straggle
- struggle
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specialized medical the process in which substances build up in tissue or cells where they are not normally found or where they are normally found in much lower amounts:
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Substances & structures in the body
- abductor
- accessorius
- adductor
- agonist
- alveolus
- amyloid
- atheroma
- caecum
- grey matter
- gyrus
- hallucis
- hilum
- hilus
- lymph vessel
- periosteum
- peritoneal
- peritoneum
- phosphatase
- platysma
- vitreous humour
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