impregnate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb fill, as with a certain quality
    infuse; tincture; instill.
    • The heavy traffic tinctures the air with carbon monoxide
  2. verb infuse or fill completely
    saturate.
    • Impregnate the cloth with alcohol
  3. verb fertilize and cause to grow
    • the egg was impregnated
  4. verb make pregnant
    knock up; prang up; bang up.
    • He impregnated his wife again

WordNet

Im*preg"nate transitive verb
Etymology
LL. impraegnatus, p. p. of impraegnare to impregnate, fr. L. pref. im- in + praegnans pregnant. See Pregnant.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Impregnated ; present participle & verbal noun Impregnating
Definitions
  1. To make pregnant; to cause to conceive; to render prolific; to get with child or young.
  2. (Biol.) To come into contact with (an ovum or egg) so as to cause impregnation; to fertilize; to fecundate.
  3. To infuse an active principle into; to render frutful or fertile in any way; to fertilize; to imbue.
  4. 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.
Im*preg"nate intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To become pregnant. Addison.
Im*preg"nate adjective
Etymology
LL. impraegnatus, p. p.
Definitions
  1. Impregnated; made prolific.
    The scorching ray Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease. Byron.

Webster 1913