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BNC: 19783 COCA: 19171

impregnate

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
impregnate /ɪmˈprɛgˌneɪt/ verb
impregnates; impregnated; impregnating
impregnate
/ɪmˈprɛgˌneɪt/
verb
impregnates; impregnated; impregnating
Learner's definition of IMPREGNATE
[+ object]
: to cause (a material) to be filled or soaked with something使充满;使饱和;浸泡
technical : to make (a woman or a female animal) pregnant使怀孕;使受精

— impregnation

/ɪmˌprɛgˈneɪʃən/ noun [noncount]
BNC: 19783 COCA: 19171

impregnate

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verb

im·​preg·​nate im-ˈpreg-ˌnāt How to pronounce impregnate (audio)
ˈim-ˌpreg-
impregnated; impregnating

transitive verb

1
a
: to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated
impregnate wood with varnish
b
: to permeate thoroughly
2
: to make pregnant : fertilize
impregnation noun
impregnator
im-ˈpreg-ˌnā-tər How to pronounce impregnate (audio)
ˈim-ˌpreg-
noun

impregnate

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adjective

im·​preg·​nate im-ˈpreg-nət How to pronounce impregnate (audio)
: being filled or saturated
Choose the Right Synonym for impregnate

soak, saturate, drench, steep, impregnate mean to permeate or be permeated with a liquid.

soak implies usually prolonged immersion as for softening or cleansing.

soak the garment in soapy water

saturate implies a resulting effect of complete absorption until no more liquid can be held.

a saturated sponge

drench implies a thorough wetting by something that pours down or is poured.

clothes drenched by a cloudburst

steep suggests either the extraction of an essence (as of tea leaves) by the liquid or the imparting of a quality (such as a color) to the thing immersed.

steep the tea for five minutes

impregnate implies a thorough interpenetration of one thing by another.

a cake strongly impregnated with brandy

Example Sentences

Verb a cake impregnated with brandy impregnated the cloth with furniture polish
Recent Examples on the Web
Verb
Getting the semen from a tiny male to impregnate a larger female is apparently a huge challenge, and one that doesn’t yet produce reliable results. Wes Siler, Outside Online, 5 June 2017 And none of these policies mention what lawmakers think should happen to the men who impregnate women. Grant Hughes, Glamour, 13 July 2022 In this Danish comedy, a fertility specialist hatches a drunken plan to use her ex-boyfriend’s sperm to impregnate herself and somehow win him back. Hau Chu, Washington Post, 8 June 2022 Casanova’s mystically enabled sperm would impregnate her with a male fetus endowed with her soul. Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022 In addition to Cline, the documentary claims, there are 44 other doctors who have used their own sperm to impregnate their patients; they, too, were discovered through at-home DNA testing. Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 May 2022 In 2017, Cline avoided jail time for lying about using his own sperm to impregnate as many as dozens of women after telling them the donors were anonymous. Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 22 May 2022 And in the documentary Our Father, nearly 100 people learn they were fathered by the same fertility doctor who, without consent, used his own sperm to impregnate patients. Ew Staff, EW.com, 11 May 2022 Our Father recounts the case of Indianapolis doctor Donald Cline, who, over the course of several years, repeatedly used his own sperm to impregnate dozens of unwitting women seeking fertility treatment. Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 12 May 2022
Adjective
The genetic material was thus less effective for artificial insemination procedures to impregnate female dogs. Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2020 See More

Word History

Etymology

Verb

Late Latin impraegnatus, past participle of impraegnare, from Latin in- + praegnas pregnant

First Known Use

Verb

1605, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Adjective

1646, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of impregnate was in 1605
BNC: 19783 COCA: 19171

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