Definition of impregnate Impregnate

/ɪmpɹɛˈgnejˌt/ - [impregneyt] - im•preg•nate

We found 17 definitions of impregnate from 6 different sources.

What does impregnate mean?

Verb impregnates, impregnating, impregnated
impregnate - infuse or fill completely; "Impregnate the cloth with alcohol"
		saturate
		make full, fill up, fill eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey"
		medicate treat medicinally, treat with medicine
		alcoholise, alcoholize make alcoholic, as by fermenting; "alcoholize prunes"
		imbue, soak suffuse with color
		ammonify treat with ammonia; cause to undergo ammonification
		thoriate impregnate with thorium oxide to increase thermionic emission
		stuff fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"
		charge saturate; "The room was charged with tension and anxiety"
		imbrue, drench permeate or impregnate; "The war drenched the country in blood"
impregnate - fertilize and cause to grow; "the egg was impregnated"
		knock up, prang up, bang up, impregnate damage or destroy as if by violence; "The teenager banged up the car of his mother"
		fecundate, inseminate, fertilise, fertilize introduce semen into (a female)
		inoculate impregnate with the virus or germ of a disease in order to render immune
impregnate - make pregnant; "He impregnated his wife again"
		knock up, bang up, prang up
		fecundate, inseminate, fertilise, fertilize introduce semen into (a female)
impregnate - fill, as with a certain quality; "The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide"
		infuse, instill, tincture
		make full, fill up, fill eat until one is sated; "He filled up on turkey"

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impregnate (v. t.)
To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.
impregnate (v. t.)
To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.
impregnate (v. t.)
To infuse an active principle into; to render fruitful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.
impregnate (v. t.)
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.
impregnate (v. i.)
To become pregnant.
impregnate (a.)
Impregnated; made prolific.

impregnate
im-preg′nāt, v.t. to make pregnant: to impart the particles or qualities of one thing to another: saturate.—n. Impregnā′tion, the act of impregnating: that with which anything is impregnated. [Low L. imprægnāre, -ātum—in, in, prægnans, pregnant.]