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   impregnate

   /ˈɪmprɛɡneɪt/

   verb

   • 1. soak or saturate (something) with a substance: "wood which had been impregnated with preservative" Similar infusesoaksteepsaturatedrenchpermeatesuffuseimbuepervadefillloadcharge
   • ▪ fill with a feeling or quality: "an atmosphere impregnated with tension"
   • 2. make (a woman or female animal) pregnant: "he was obliged to marry the woman he'd impregnated" Similar make pregnantget pregnantinseminatefertilizeinformal:put in the family wayget up the duffput in the clubget up the spoutget up the stickknock upinformal, dated:get into troublearchaic:fecundateget with child
   • ▪ fertilize (an ovum).

   Word Origin early 17th century (in the sense ‘fill’; earlier (Middle English) as impregnation): from late Latin impregnat- ‘made pregnant’, from the verb impregnare.

   Derivatives

   • 1. impregnation noun

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