impregnate

Speech parts

1. impregnate - Adjective

2. impregnate - Verb

Meaning

To become pregnant.

To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.

To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.

To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.

To infuse particles of another substance into; to communicate the quality of another to; to cause to be filled, imbued, mixed, or furnished (with something); as, to impregnate India rubber with sulphur; clothing impregnated with contagion; rock impregnated with ore.

Impregnated; made prolific.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

instill tincture saturate infuse bang up knock up sop father coat dye procreate charge fill steep penetrate
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Antonyms

DRY kill destroy drained abort blot
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Hypernyms

fill fertilize fertilise inseminate fecundate fill up

Hyponyms

charge stuff soak imbue inoculate medicate

Derivatives

impregnated impregnating

Anagrams

permeating rimegepant

Examples

He impregnated his wife again Source: Internet

the egg was impregnated Source: Internet

Impregnate the cloth with alcohol Source: Internet

The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide Source: Internet

It is a conjugated form of embarazar "to impregnate". Source: Internet

In a pathology laboratory, paraffin wax is used to impregnate tissue prior to sectioning thin samples of tissue. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

impregnably impregnant impregnatable impregnation impregnator imprejudicate