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