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Impregnate

 : 
Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive), Adjective
 : 
im=preg=nate

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Verb Impregnate has 4 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

Impregnatev. t. [LL. impraegnatus, p. p. of impraegnare to impregnate, fr. L. pref. im- in + praegnans pregnant. See Pregnant.].
  •  To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.  [1913 Webster]
  •  To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
Impregnatev. i. 
     To become pregnant.  Addison.  [1913 Webster]
Impregnatea. [LL. impraegnatus, p. p.].
     Impregnated; made prolific.  [1913 Webster]
    "The scorching ray
    Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease.
    "  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Impregnate, v. & adj.
--v.tr.
1 (often foll. by with) fill or saturate.
2 (often foll. by with) imbue, fill (with feelings, moral qualities, etc.).
3 a make (a female) pregnant. b Biol. fertilize (a female reproductive cell or ovum).
--adj.
1 pregnant.
2 (often foll. by with) permeated.

Derivative
impregnation n.
Etymology
LL impregnare impregnat- (as IN-(2), pregnare be pregnant)

THESAURUS

Impregnate

bathe, beat into, besprinkle, brainwash, breathe, brew, catechize, charge, color, condition, cross-fertilize, cross-pollen, cross-pollinate, cross-pollinize, decoct, douche, dredge, drench, dress, drouk, dye, enrich, entincture, fatten, fecundate, fecundify, fertilize, fill, flavor, flush, fructify, get with child, get with young, imbrue, imbue, implant, impress, inculcate, indoctrinate, infiltrate, infix, infuse, inject, inoculate, inseminate, instill, interpenetrate, lave, leach, leaven, lixiviate, macerate, manure, penetrate, percolate, permeate, pervade, pollen, pollinate, pollinize, program, prolificate, rinse, saturate, season, seethe, soak, sodden, sop, souse, spermatize, steep, suffuse, temper, tincture, tinge, transfuse, wash, waterlog

ROGET THESAURUS

Impregnate

Combination

VB combine, unite, incorporate, amalgamate, embody, absorb, reembody, blend, merge, fuse, melt into one, consolidate, coalesce, centralize, impregnate, put together, lump together, cement a union, marry.

Production

VB produce, perform, operate, do, make, gar, form, construct, fabricate, frame, contrive, manufacture, weave, forge, coin, carve, chisel, build, raise, edify, rear, erect, put together, set up, run up, establish, constitute, compose, organize, institute, achieve, accomplish, flower, bear fruit, fructify, teem, ean, yean, farrow, drop, pup, kitten, kindle, bear, lay, whelp, bring forth, give birth to, lie in, be brought to bed of, evolve, pullulate, usher into the world, make productive, create, beget, get, generate, fecundate, impregnate, procreate, progenerate, propagate, engender, bring into being, call into being, bring into existence, breed, hatch, develop, bring up, induce, superinduce, suscitate, cause, acquire.

Productiveness

VB make productive, fructify, procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate, fecundate, fecundify, teem, multiply, produce, conceive.

Insertion

VB insert, introduce, intromit, put into, run into, import, inject, interject, infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue, graft, ingraft, bud, plant, implant, dovetail, obtrude, thrust in, stick in, ram in, stuff in, tuck in, press, in, drive in, pop in, whip in, drop in, put in, impact, empierce, imbed, immerse, immerge, merge, bathe, soak, dip, plunge, bury, insert itself, lodge itself, plunge in medias res.

Teaching

VB teach, instruct, educate, edify, school, tutor, cram, prime, coach, enlighten, inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate, imbue, impregnate, implant, graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate, given an idea of, put up to, put in the way of, set right, sharpen the wits, enlarge the mind, give new ideas, open the eyes, bring forward, teach the young idea how to shoot, improve, expound, lecture, read a lesson, give a lesson, give a lecture, give a sermon, give a discourse, incept, hold forth, preach, sermonize, moralize, point a moral, train, discipline, bring up, bring up to, form, ground, prepare, qualify, drill, exercise, practice, habituate, familiarize with, nurture, drynurse, breed, rear, take in hand, break, break in, tame, preinstruct, initiate, inure, put to nurse, send to school, direct, guide, direct attention to, impress upon the mind, impress upon the memory, beat into, beat into the head, convince, book, workbook, exercise book, preach to the wise, teach one's grandmother to suck eggs, teach granny to suck eggs, preach to the converted.

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