impregnate
verb/ˈɪmpreɡneɪt/
/ɪmˈpreɡneɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they impregnate | /ˈɪmpreɡneɪt/ /ɪmˈpreɡneɪt/ |
| he / she / it impregnates | /ˈɪmpreɡneɪts/ /ɪmˈpreɡneɪts/ |
| past simple impregnated | /ˈɪmpreɡneɪtɪd/ /ɪmˈpreɡneɪtɪd/ |
| past participle impregnated | /ˈɪmpreɡneɪtɪd/ /ɪmˈpreɡneɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form impregnating | /ˈɪmpreɡneɪtɪŋ/ /ɪmˈpreɡneɪtɪŋ/ |
- [usually passive] to make a substance spread through an area so that the area is full of the substance
- be impregnated (with something) The pad is impregnated with insecticide.
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- impregnate somebody/something (formal) to make a woman or female animal pregnant
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘fill’; earlier (Middle English) as impregnation): from late Latin impregnat- ‘made pregnant’, from the verb impregnare.
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