Meaning of shot through with | Babel Free

Definitions

Infused, permeated, streaked with (something).

Examples

“One of the great strengths of the mediaeval penitential system at its best (and stripped of the undoubted corruptions with which it was shot through) lay in its teaching about the use of the will for good in those in whom the Holy Spirit is at work.”

“Chinese government and society are shot through with corruption.”

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