Godan verb with 'ru' ending, Intransitive verb
to go by; to go past; to go along; to travel along; to pass through; to use (a road); to take (a route); to go via; to go by way of
私は毎日その教会の前を通る。I go by that church every day. to run (between; of a rail service, bus route, etc.); to operate (between); to connect
to go indoors; to go into a room; to be admitted; to be shown in; to be ushered in; to come in
to penetrate; to pierce; to skewer; to go through; to come through
to permeate; to soak into; to spread throughout
to carry (e.g. of a voice); to reach far
to be passed on (e.g. of a customer's order to the kitchen); to be relayed; to be conveyed
to pass (a test, a bill in the House, etc.); to be approved; to be accepted
to go by (a name); to be known as; to be accepted as; to have a reputation for
to be coherent; to be logical; to be reasonable; to be comprehensible; to be understandable; to make sense
to get across (e.g. of one's point); to be understood
to pass for; to come across as; to seem like
to be straight (e.g. wood grain)
to be well-informed; to be wise
Archaic
Suffix, Godan verb with 'ru' ending
to do ... completely; to do ... thoroughly
after the -masu stem of a verb
Also written 透る【とおる】、徹る【とおる】