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INTROMIT
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Irregular inflected forms: intromitted , intromitting
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they intromit ... he / she / it intromits
Past simple: intromitted
-ing form: intromitting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Allow to enter; grant entry to
Example:
This pipe admits air
Synonyms:
admit; allow in; intromit; let in
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "intromit" is one way to...):
allow; countenance; let; permit (consent to, give permission)
Verb group:
admit (serve as a means of entrance)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "intromit"):
repatriate (admit back into the country)
readmit (admit anew)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Derivation:
intromission (the act of putting one thing into another)