Impregnate Definition

ĭm-prĕgnāt
impregnated, impregnates, impregnating
verb
impregnated, impregnates, impregnating
To fertilize (an ovum)
Webster's New World
To make pregnant.
Webster's New World
To fertilize (land); make fruitful.
Webster's New World
To fill or saturate; cause to be permeated.
Clothing impregnated with smoke.
Webster's New World
To permeate or imbue.
Impregnate a speech with optimism.
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adjective
Saturated or filled.
American Heritage
Impregnated.
Webster's New World

Origin of Impregnate

  • Probably from Late Latin impraegnātus pregnant Latin in- in in–2 Latin praegnātus variant of praegnās pregnant pregnant1

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Earlier impregn, from Middle French imprégner, from Old French enpreignier.

    From Wiktionary

Impregnate Sentence Examples

  • If so, can the sperm live long enough to impregnate the bitch?

  • Incubi are demons who take a male shape in order to seduce women and impregnate them.

  • In medicine boracic acid is used in solution to relieve itching, but its chief use is as a mild antiseptic to impregnate lint or cotton-wool.

  • To impregnate (the air, or something to be eaten, etc.) with poison; to render poisonous.

  • In the Roman order of baptism the priest prays that "the font may receive the grace of the only begotten Son from the holy Spirit, and that the latter may impregnate with hidden admixture of His light this water prepared for the regeneration of mankind, to the end that man through a sanctification conceived from the immaculate womb of the divine font, may emerge a heavenly offspring reborn as a new creature."

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Words Starting With

IIMIMP

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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impregnate

Words Starting With I and Ending With E

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