Impregnate

Definition: Impregnate

Impregnate

Verb

1. Fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide".

2. Infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol".

3. Make pregnant.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "impregnate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

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Multilingual Slang

Slang

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Synonyms: Impregnate

Combination

Verb: 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.

Insertion

Verb: insert; introduce, intromit; put into, run into; import; inject; interject; infuse, instill, inoculate, impregnate, imbue, imbrue.

Mixture

Verb: mix; join; combine; commix, immix, intermix; mix up with, mingle; commingle, intermingle, bemingle; shuffle; (derange); pound together; hash up, stir up; knead, brew; impregnate with; interlard; (interpolate); intertwine, interweave; associate with; miscegenate.

Production

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.

Productiveness

Verb: make -productive; Adjective: fructify; procreate, generate, fertilize, spermative, impregnate; fecundate, fecundify; teem, multiply; produce; conceive.

Redundancy

Choke, cloy, accloy, suffocate; pile up, lay on thick; impregnate with; lavish; (squander).

Teaching

Inculcate, indoctrinate, inoculate, infuse, instill, infix, ingraft, infiltrate; imbue, impregnate, implant; graft, sow the seeds of, disseminate.

Crosswords: Impregnate

Then we can elope to Europe, or the Caymans, wherever, where I'll let you impregnate me with the first of 3 children before you head off to rehab (I Know What You Did Last Summer; writing credit: Kevin Williamson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expression using "impregnate": impregnate with. Additional references.

Albanian

i pllenuar, i nginjur (full, impregnated), pllenoj (fecundate, inseminate, pollinate), ngop (cloy, glut, palm off, sate, satiate, saturate), ndërzej (couple, inseminate, pair off), mbush (cement, charge, clog, close, cover in, cram, crowd, draw, fill, fill in, fill up, gorge, Grout, heap, imbue, infest, inject, inspire, line, load, make out, meet, pad, pervade, pour out, pump, stop up, Stow, stuff, suffuse, tap, write out), mbars (fecundate, inseminate), e mbarsur (impregnated, pregnant). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ملقح, ‏مخصب (fattened, fertile, impregnated), ‏نقع (assuage, drench, impregnation, infuse, mashing, saturate, saturation, slake, soak, souse, steep, temper, wash, water), ‏لقح (fecundate, fertilize, inject, inoculate, pollinate, shoot, vaccinate), ‏أخصب (enrich, fatten, fertilize, fructify, inseminate), ‏شرب (bib, drain, drink, imbibe, infuse, ingrain, inoculate, quaff, stain, steep). (various references)

Bulgarian 

вкоренявам (root, strike), внедрявам (implant, inculcate, instil, introduce, plant, root), оплодявам (fecundate, fructify), оплодотворявам (fecundate), оплодотворен, оплоден (fertile, impregnated), насищам (glut, imbue, penetrate, permeate, satiate, saturate, slake), наситен (replete, saturate, saturated), напоявам (drench, imbue, irrigate, penetrate, saturate, soak, water), напоен (full, impregnated), бременна (enceinte, heavy, pregnant, up the spout, with young), правя жена да забременее, импрегниран (impregnated, waterproof), импрегнирам (oil, steep). (various references)

Chinese 

怀孕 (impregnated, Impregnating, Pregnancy, Pregnant). (various references)

Czech

impregnovat (weatherproof), oplodnit (fertilize), nasytit (feed, saturate), napustit (draw, fill). (various references)

Danish

impraegnere. (various references)

Dutch

impregneren (doping, grouting by impregnation, impregnation, penetration prime coat, priming, road oiling), doordrenken, dompelen (dipping, shell molding over male mold, shell moulding over male mould, steeping). (various references)

Finnish

kyllästää (saturate). (various references)

French

imprégner (imbue). (various references)

German

befruchten (fecundate, fertilize, fructify, inseminate, make fertile, pollinate, stimulate, to impregnate). (various references)

Greek 

καθυστώ έγκυον, γονιμοποιώ (fertilise, fertilize, fructify, inseminate), εμβαπτίζω, εμποτίζω (imbue, ingrain, soak), διαποτίζω (imbue with, permeate, pervade, saturate, seep, soak through). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעוברת (pregnant), לעבר (conceive, fecundate, make pregnant), להפרות (fertilize, fructify, inseminate), להספיג (soak, sop, steep). (various references)

Hungarian

terhes (arduous, big with child, burdensome, cumbersome, cumbrous, enceinte, encumbrance, expecting, gravid, inconvenient, irksome, onerous, oppressive, pregnant, to be big with child, to be in the family way, to be pillowed, to be quick with child, to look pillowed, with calf, with young), telített (instinct, saturated), impregnált, átitatott (saturated, soaked, sodden). (various references)

Indonesian

menghamili (fertilize), membuntingi (knock up), membuahi, bacam. (various references)

Italian

impregnare (be filled, become impregnated, become soaked, fill, imbue, soak, steep, waterlog). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

注ぎ込む (to imbue, to implant, to impregnate, to infuse, to inject, to instill, to invest in, to pour into, to put into). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そそぎこむ (to imbue, to implant, to impregnate, to infuse, to inject, to instill, to invest in, to pour into, to put into), つぎこむ (to imbue, to implant, to impregnate, to infuse, to inject, to instill, to invest in, to pour into, to put into). (various references)

Manx

jannoo torragh (fecundate, fecundation, fertilize, impregnation), faagail torragh. (various references)

Norwegian

impregnert, impregnere, gjennomtrenge. (various references)

Pig Latin

impregnateay.(various references)

Portuguese

impregnar (engrain, imbibe, imbue, interfuse, leaven, line, penetrate, pervade, saturate). (various references)

Romanian

umple (choke, clog, comprise, contain, cram, crowd, farce, fill, fill up, flood, heap, inflate, inform, intersperse, Lade, pack, replenish, stain, stock, stop, store, stuff, suffuse, supply), satura (glut, imbue, replete, saturate), plinuţã, gravidã (expectant, gravid, in an interesting condition, pregnant), fertiliza (chalk, dress, fecundate, fertilize, fructify), fecunda (enrich, fecundate, fertilize), însãrcinatã (big with child, gravid, in a family way, pregnant, with child). (various references)

Russian 

оплодотворять (fertilize, inseminate). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

prožeti (consume, imbue, permeate), prožet (instinct, saturate), oploditi (fertilize), oplođen (fertilized, impregnated). (various references)

Spanish

impregnar (medicate, pervade). (various references)

Swedish

impregnera (dope, proof, waterproof, weatherproof), genomdränka (drench, imbue, infiltrate, saturate, soak). (various references)

Turkish

içirmek (make to drink, steep), hamile bırakmak (fecundate, knock up), hamile (big with child, expectant, expecting, gone, gravid, heavy, heavy with child, heavy with young, in pod, in pup, in the family way, preggers, pregnant, with child, with young), gebe (big with child, expectant, expecting, gravid, heavy with child, heavy with young, in foal, in lamb, in pod, in pup, in the family way, preggers, pregnant, with child, with foal, with lamb, with young), emmiş, emdirmek (make suck, saturate), doymuş (gorged, gratified, satiate, satiated, saturated, steeped in), döllenmiş, döllemek (fecundate, fertilize, inseminate), aşılanmış, aşılamak (bud, engraft, envenom, fertilize, graft, imbue, indoctrinate, infect, infuse into, ingraft, inoculate, inspire, instil, instill, pass on an ilness, plant, suggest, transfuse, vaccinate). (various references)

Ukrainian

робити вагітной, вагітна (big with child, fraught, gravid, parturient, pregnant, quick with child), насичувати (charge, imbue, medicate, sate, satiate, saturate), насичений (impregnated, replete, satiate), запліднювати (fertilize, inseminate), запліднений. (various references)

Vietnamese 

nhiễm, có mang thấm. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "impregnate": impregnated, impregnates. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Impregnate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: empregnate, imprenate. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: permeating.

-1 letter: germinate, repeating, reteaming, tampering, tempering.

-2 letters: antimere, aperient, emigrant, emigrate, geminate, gratinee, interage, metering, perigean, permeant, petering, regiment, remating, retaping, tapering, tramping.

-3 letters: arenite, emerita, emirate, emptier, epigean, epigram, etamine, garment, gatemen, germane, germina, granite, grantee, gratine, greaten, gripman, gripmen, impregn, ingrate, integer, mangier, margent, marting, matinee, meatier, meeting, metring, migrant, migrate, minaret.

+1 letter: attempering, impregnated, impregnates.

+2 letters: premarketing, reattempting.

+3 letters: disparagement, premarketings, premeditating, spermatogenic.

+4 letters: disparagements, magnetospheric, pamphleteering, parameterizing.

+5 letters: cinematographer, interpermeating, spermatogenesis.