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to move into (an organization, enemy area, etc.) gradually and without being noticed

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Usage examples (16)
  • Although paranoid, secretive, infiltrative are fair enough.
  • Mrs. Edwards will be undergoing further testing of her infiltrative ductal carcinoma of the breast, to determine how far it's spread and whether or not a mastectomy or...
  • The doctors called her breast cancer "infiltrative ductile cancer."
  • If it is a diffuse infiltrative process, a specimen should be taken from at least two locations.
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